Artist: Betty Carter
Album: Social Call
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: CBS Special Products
Released: 1990
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Moonlight in Vermont (Blackburn-Suessdorf) - 3:26
- Thou Swell (Hart-Rodgers) - 1:43
- I Could Write a Book (Hart-Rodgers) - 2:40
- Gone with the Wind (Magidson-Wrubel) - 4:13
- The Way You Look Tonight (Fields-Kern) - 2:44
- Can't We Be Friends (James-Swift) - 2:28
- Tell Him I Said Hello (Canning-Hagner) - 2:35
- Social Call (Qusim-Hendricks) - 2:40
- Runaway (Westover-Crook) - 2:31
- Frenesi (Dominguez-Russell-Charles) - 2:33
- Let's Fall in Love ((Arlen-Koehler) - 1:57
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This LP contains singer Betty Carter's earliest recordings. On one date she is heard performing six standards with a quartet also featuring pianist Ray Bryant ("I Could Write a Book" and "The Way You Look Tonight" are highpoints). The other session, which was only released for the first time in 1980, has five songs on which Carter is joined by a 14-piece band arranged by Gigi Gryce; this version of "Social Call" is a classic. Naturally Carter sounds much more conventional on these performances than she would 30 to 40 years later, but already her voice was immediately recognizable.
Review by Scott Yanow