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Album Review

Betty Bryant: Nothin' Better To Do...

Read "Nothin' Better To Do..." reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
January 24, 2026

Betty Bryant's nothin' better to do.. radiates the natural confidence of a seasoned club date, where the music speaks for itself. A pianist, singer, and composer whose artistry has been shaped by decades of experience rather than trends (at the impressive age of 96), Bryant brings a storyteller's instinct and a deep respect for melody to this session. Producer Robert Kyle, himself a seasoned saxophonist and flautist, places her in a setting that is both intimate and expansive, featuring a ...

Radio & Podcasts

Betty Bryant, Lisa Hilton, Carolyn Trowbridge, Kris Davis With The Lutoslawski Quartet & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 12, 2026

Happy New Year! This broadcast welcomes 2026 with new music from Betty Bryant, Lisa Hilton, Carolyn Trowbridge, Kris Davis, Part 1 of a look back at some notable releases of the past year, birthday shoutouts to Una Mae Carlisle, Naama Gheber, Nancy LaMott, Emma Dayhuff, Susannah McCorkle, Joe Lovano, Sullivan Fortner and yours truly Mary Foster Conklin, among others, plus a remembrance of several artists who left us in 2025. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them ...

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Kenny Barron Songbook Project, Lori Williams, Whitney Ross-Barris, Angela Verbrugge & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 17, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Lori Williams, Kenny Barron, Whitney Ross-Barris, Angela Verbrugge and Phillip Officer, with birthday shoutouts to Lorde, Joni Mitchell, Chris Connor, Anne Sajdera, Russell Malone, Lauren Henderson, Jane Monheit, Lani Hall, Nikara Warren, Bertha Hope, Dara Starr Tucker and Betty Bryant, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place is in ...

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New Releases from Betty Bryant, Ruben Caban, Juno Nominees Plus Women Who Wrote With Harold Arlen

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 26, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Betty Bryant, Sarah L King, Ruben Caban and Andrea Superstein, with nods to Juno nominees Jocelyn Gould, Allison Au Christine Jensen and Gentiane MG plus birthday shoutouts to Shirley Crabbe, Jessica Jones, Dena DeRose, Nicole Mitchell, MJ Territo, Elsa Nilsson and Harold Arlen, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

Album Review

Betty Bryant: Lotta Livin'

Read "Lotta Livin'" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 8, 2024

First, double-check to make sure there aren't any misprints. No, it's an honest-to-goodness fact that Betty Bryant--who sings, plays piano, wrote four of the nine numbers and arranged half a dozen on her fourteenth album--really was almost ninety-four years old when Lotta Livin' was recorded in 2023. Bryant's rough and edgy voice is remarkably strong and steady, while her piano playing simply defies any generational labels. As a vocalist, no note seems out of her reach, and ...

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New Releases, Birthday Shoutouts Plus the Better Times Will Come Project

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 23, 2020

The broadcast features new releases from flutists Carla Campopiano and Yulia Musayelyan, vocalist Melody Gardot, the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, guitarists Susan Alcorn and Chance Hayden, plus singles from Sarah McKenzie and Lili Anel, the latest participant of Janis Ian's Better Times Will Come project, with birthday shoutouts to pianist Betty Bryant, vocalists Ernestine Anderson, Marlene VerPlanck, Rene Marie and Marianne Solivan, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this ...

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Album Review

Betty Bryant: No Regrets

Read "No Regrets" reviewed by Dee Dee McNeil

by Dee Dee McNeil
February 5, 2010

Fondly referred to as the “Cool Miss B," Betty Bryant is a native of Kansas City who relocated to Los Angeles in 1955. One of a thimble full of stalwart female pianists and vocal stylists, Bryant packed the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood in November, 2009 to celebrate the release of her appropriately titled No Regrets and her 80th birthday. By the look of the SRO (standing room only) turnout, she needn't have a single compunction; this talented lady and ...