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Betty Carter
Betty Carter, Lucerna Hall, Prague, 25 October 1986
Betty Carter, Lucerna Hall, Prague, 25 October 1986
Background information
Birth name Lillie Mae Jones
Born May 16, 1929 (1929-05-16)
Origin Flint, Michigan
Died September 26, 1998 (aged 69)
Genre(s) Vocal jazz
Years active 1948–1998
Label(s) Bet-Car, Verve

Betty Carter (May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer who was renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Flint is a city in the US state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km northwest of Detroit. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Jazz Singing can be defined by the instrumental approach to the voice where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics improvised or otherwise or Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Bet-Car Records was a Record label founded by Jazz Singer Betty Carter in 1970 to release her own recordings after her negative experiences Verve Records is an American Jazz Record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Musical Improvisation is the creative activity of immediate Musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter. Carmen Mercedes McRae ( April 8, 1920 &ndash November 10, 1994) was an American Jazz Singer, Composer "[1]

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Early life

Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones in Flint, Michigan and grew up in Detroit, where her father led a church choir. Flint is a city in the US state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km northwest of Detroit. She studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers She won a talent contest and became a regular on the local club circuit, singing and playing piano. When she was 16, she sang with Charlie Parker, and she later performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( October 21 1917 &ndash January 6 1993) was an American Jazz Trumpeter Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26 1926 &ndash September 28 1991 was an American Jazz Trumpeter, Bandleader, and Composer.

Career

Carter honed her scat singing ability while on tour with Lionel Hampton in the late 1940s. In Vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with random vocables and syllables or without words at all Lionel Leo Hampton ( April 20, 1908 &ndash August 31, 2002) was an American Jazz Vibraphonist, Percussionist Hampton's wife Gladys gave her the nickname "Betty Bebop," a nickname she detested. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. Bebop or bop is a form of Jazz characterized by fast Tempos and Improvisation based on Harmonic structure rather than Melody In the 1950s Carter made recordings with King Pleasure and the Ray Bryant Trio. King Pleasure ( March 24, 1922 - March 21, 1981) was a Jazz vocalist and an early master of Vocalese, where a singer sings Ray Bryant (Raphael Homer Bryant (born December 24, 1931 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a American jazz pianist and composer Her first solo LP, Out There with Betty Carter, was released on the Peacock label in 1958. Out There (sometimes listed as Out There with Betty Carter Peacock Records was a Record label started in 1949 by Don D Robey.

Carter's career was eclipsed somewhat during the 1960s and 1970s, though a series of duets with Ray Charles in 1961, including the R&B-chart-topping "Baby, It's Cold Outside," brought her a measure of popular recognition. A duet is a Musical composition or piece for two Performers In Classical music the term is most often used for a composition for two singers Ray Charles Robinson ( September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) known by his Stage name Ray Charles, was an American "Baby It's Cold Outside" is a Pop standard with words and music by Frank Loesser. In 1963 she toured in Japan with Sonny Rollins. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7 1930 in New York City) is an American Jazz tenor Saxophonist She recorded for various labels during this period, including ABC-Paramount, Atco and United Artists, but was rarely satisfied with the resulting product. ABC Records started in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records the record label of Am-Par Record Corporation (a subsidiary of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Atco Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment. United Artists Records was a Record label founded by Max E Youngstein of United Artists in 1958 initially to distribute Soundtracks

In 1970, a record company A&R man tried to run off with a set of her master recordings; the incident led her to establish her own record label, Bet-Car. Artists and Repertoire ( A&R) is the division of a Record label that is responsible for talent scouting and artist development A master recording is an original Recording, from which copies may be made Bet-Car Records was a Record label founded by Jazz Singer Betty Carter in 1970 to release her own recordings after her negative experiences Some of her most famous recordings were originally issued on Bet-Car, including the double album The Audience with Betty Carter (1980). A double album is an audio Album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold (especially records and Compact Discs. The Audience with Betty Carter is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) live Double album by the American Jazz singer Betty Carter. In 1980 she was the subject of a documentary film by Michelle Parkerson, But Then, She's Betty Carter. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality

In the last decade of her life, Carter finally began to receive wider acclaim and recognition. In 1987 she signed with Verve Records, who reissued most of her Bet-Car albums on CD for the first time and made them available to wider audiences. Verve Records is an American Jazz Record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. For the reissuing of print material see Reprint A reissue (also known as a re-release or re-edition) is the repeated issue A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio In 1988 she won a Grammy for her album Look What I Got! and sang in a guest appearance on The Cosby Show (episode "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?"). The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Look What I Got! is a 1988 album by the American Jazz singer Betty Carter. The Cosby Show is an American television Situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 In 1994 she performed at the White House and was a headliner at Verve's 50th anniversary celebration in Carnegie Hall. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence Carnegie Hall (generally ˌkɑrnɨgi ˈhɔːl is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east In 1997 she was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton. The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the Congress of the United States in 1984 for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Carter remained active in jazz until her death from pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor of the Pancreas. Each year about 37680 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with this condition and 34290

Legacy

Like Art Blakey, Carter became known for working with developing young players. Arthur (Art Blakey ( October 11 1919 &ndash October 16 1990) born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 1970s, she recruited most of her sidemen from a younger generation of musicians. A sideman is a professional Musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not a regular member In 1993 she helped launch the Jazz Ahead program for young musicians at the Kennedy Center. The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (on the building itself called the John F

Carter was a composer and arranger as well as an interpreter of songs. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance In Music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing Music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch such Her composition "Open the Door" became her own signature song; she recorded it several times in different arrangements and often used it to conclude her live performances. " Open the Door " is a popular Song written by Betty Carter in 1964. A signature song is the one Song (or in some cases one of a few songs that a popular and well-established Her 1964 recording of the song was featured in the soundtrack of the 1999 film American Beauty. American Beauty is a 1999 soundtrack album to the film of the same name starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. American Beauty is a 1999 Drama film set in modern American Suburbia. She was also known for her medleys of Tin Pan Alley standards, most famously her weaving together of "Body and Soul" and "Heart and Soul". In Music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces played one after another sometimes Overlapping. Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City -centered music publishers and Songwriters who dominated the popular " Body and Soul " is a popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green. " Heart and Soul " is a popular song with music by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics by Frank Loesser, published in 1938.

Carter is mentioned along with other jazz luminaries in Gang Starr's jazz rap "Jazz Thing. Gangstar redirects here For the video game see Gangstar Crime City. Jazz rap (also known as hip bop) is a fusion of Alternative hip hop and Jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s " In 1999 she was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. Down Beat is an American Magazine devoted to "jazz blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively

Album discography

Columbia

Peacock

Impulse

ABC

Atco

United Artists/Capitol

Roulette

Bet-Car/Verve

Bootleg

Compilation Albums

On various artist compilations

References

  1. ^ Bauer, William R. Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), xiv.
  2. ^ allmusic ((( Betty Carter's Finest Hour > Overview )))

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Persondata
NAME Carter, Betty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Jazz singer, songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Flint, Michigan, United States
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1998
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles, California, United States
Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Flint is a city in the US state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km northwest of Detroit. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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