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Article: Book Review

Open The Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter

Read "Open The Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter" reviewed by Craig Jolley


Open The Door William R. Bauer Univ of Michigan Press ISBN: 019514838X Betty Carter came up as a bebop-only singer in the late 40's. She gradually broadened and deepened her music, enduring what she perceived as failed career over the next 25 years. Beginning with an engagement at the Keystone ...

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'S Finest Hour

Label: BETTYRules Music
Released: 2003

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Betty Carter's Finest Hour

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: You're Driving Me Crazy; I Can't Help It; Babe's Blues; Medley: I Didn't Know What Time It Was / All The Things You Are / I Could Write A Book; Tight; Open The Door (Theme Song); The Trolley Song; I Could Write A Book; Social Call; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; It Don't Mean A Thing; The Good Life; Droppin' Things; In The Still Of The Night;

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Article: Interview

Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled

Read "Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...

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I'm Yours, You're Mine

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1997
Track listing: This Time; I'm Yours, You're Mine; Lonely House; Close Your Eyes; Useless Landscape; East of the Sun; September Song.

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Article: Album Review

Betty Carter: I'm Yours, You're Mine

Read "I'm Yours, You're Mine" reviewed by Tom Storer


Coming up in the shadow of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter realized early on there was no point competing on that terrain, and slowly but surely eked out one of her own. Carter's vocal world has been one of ferocious scat and luxuriously slow ballads, of relentless swing and angular melodic lines unafraid to ...

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I'm Yours, You're Mine

Label: BETTYRules Music
Released: 1996

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Feed The Fire

Label: BETTYRules Music
Released: 1994

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'Round Midnight

Label: BETTYRules Music
Released: 1992


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