Betty Carter: Next Steps

Betty Carter: Next Steps

Betty Carter took scat singing further than any other jazz vocalist in a variety of ways. Her wordless spontaneity pilots the big bands that back her in "Remember" and "The Blue Bird of Happiness", but she was equally inventive in the small-group, slow-tempo context of "Look What I Got". "B's Blues", from 1993, finds her developing fresh ideas with arguably her finest rhythm section.