Beautiful and passionately done

Amazing performance by Betty Carter. She was ahead of her time with her modern approach to interpretating the melody with harmonic ideas in the phrasing. There will never be another one like her. #completejazzvocalist

Thanks for putting this up! So great to see Betty in this underdocumented period of her career. She once said she really took her concept up to the next level when she started holding the mike in her hand instead of standing in front of the mike stand. This would have been shortly before that move, I guess. Absolutely brilliant performance, especially the interactions with the alto player at the end.

Thanks so much for this jem. The love I have for Betty Carter runs deep. I celebrate her memory. I speak her name.

Wonderfull footage. never seen. Many Thanks!

I wish there was a list of who is playing here. This gave me goosebumps.

Grazie, Thank You!

Noordijk blaast een nootje mee. Wie heeft Betty Carter zelf bij zich?

What a pity you ruin the image by adding your signature to the videos you upload; else I would subscribe to your channel.

Trying too hard to be "avant garde". This lady seems to have missed the whole point of what singing is all about. Such grotesque so called "instrumentalize" singing. If you're going to subject your voice through such histrionics, might as well learn how play a true instrument.