
Artist
Betty Carter
Betty Carter is a jazz artist from Flint, USA. 83 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Flint, USA · Best jazz albums
- 83
- Releases
- 1900–2026
- Active years

Artist
Betty Carter is a jazz artist from Flint, USA. 83 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Flint, USA · Best jazz albums

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Inside Betty Carter
1993 · 15 tracks

Ray Charles and Betty Carter
2014

'Round Midnight
1992

Look What I Got!
1988

The Betty Carter Album
1972

The Modern Sound of Betty Carter
1960

It's Not About the Melody
1992

I'm Yours, You're Mine
1996

Out There With Betty Carter
1958
'Round Midnight (The Roulette Years)
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The Carmen McRae and Betty Carter Duets
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Essential Classics, Vol. 57: Betty Carter
2024

Betty Carter - First Recordings
2024

In Person
2024

Essential Classics, Vol. 57: Betty Carter (2023 Remastered)
2023

Raindrops On Roses (Live New York '82) (Live)
2022

The Classic Recordings
2022

Social Call
2021

Jazz Queen
2021

Betty Carter At Her Best
2021

Ray Charles And Betty Carter: Dedicated To You (Remastered)
2020

Breathless: 50 Unforgettable Tracks
2020

Stormy Weather (Remastered)
2019

Avant-Garde Jazz (Remastered)
2019

When I Fall in Love (Remastered)
2019

The Music Never Stops
2019

You're Driving Me Crazy (Remastered)
2019

Moonlight in Vermont (Remastered)
2018

What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Remastered)
2018

Stormy Weather - The Unforgettable Betty Carter
2017

Milestones of Jazz Legends - Female Jazz Singers, Vol. 6
2017

The Classic Years
2016

The Best of Betty Carter
2015

Four Classic Albums (Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant / Out There / The Modern Sound of Betty Carter / Ray Charles and Betty Carte
2014

Jazz Of The 50s Vol 1
2014

Jazz From The 50s Vol 1
2014

Jazz From The 50s Vol 2
2014

Jazz A La Carte Vol 3
2014

Jazz A La Carte Vol 2
2014

Alone Together
2013

We're Listening to Betty Carter, Vol. 4
2013

Have You Heard of Betty Carter, Vol. 2
2013

We're Listening to Betty Carter, Vol. 2
2013

We're Listening to Betty Carter, Vol. 5
2013

At Sundown, Vol. 1
2013

Betty, Vol. 1
2013

Have You Heard of Betty Carter, Vol. 1
2013

Have You Heard of Betty Carter, Vol. 5
2013

Betty, Vol. 2
2013

Essential Betty Carter, Vol. 4
2013

At Sundown, Vol. 2
2013

The Best of Betty, Vol. 1
2013

Have You Heard of Betty Carter, Vol. 4
2013

The Smooth Sounds of Betty Carter, Vol. 1
2013

Betty and Ray
2013

I Could Write a Book, Vol. 2
2013

Essential Classics
2013

The Best of Betty, Vol. 2
2013

Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant (Remastered)
2013

I Could Write a Book, Vol. 1
2013

Betty Carter's Finest Hour
2012

Precious & Rare: Betty Carter
2012

Evr’y Time We Say Goodbye - All-Time Romantic Duets
2012

The Audience With Betty Carter (Live)
2012

Her Jazz Greats (1955-1960)
2011

I Can't Help It
2009

Droppin Things
2009

Whatever Happened To Love?
2004

Finally
2003
The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets
1996
Feed the Fire
1994

At The Village Vanguard
1993
The Bebop Girl
1989
Now It's My Turn
1976

Out There (Remastered)
1958

The Myth of Betty Carter
1956

Calypso Carnival (1914 - 1940)
1930

Ray Charles & Betty Carter
1900
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones, May 16, 1929 - September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. The vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked, "There's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter." Early life: Carter was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit, where her father led a church choir. As a child, Carter was raised to be extremely independent and to not expect nurturing from her family. Even thirty years after leaving home, Carter was still very aware of and affected by the home life she was raised in, and was quoted saying, "I have been far removed from my immediate family. There's been no real contact of phone calls home every week to find out how everybody is...As far as my family is concerned, it's been a lonesome trek...It's probably just as much my fault as it is theirs, and I can't blame anybody for it. But there was no real closeness, where the family urged me on, or said...'We're proud'...and all that. No, no...none of that happened." Despite the isolation from her family…