Michael Curtis's Concert Archive
Joined February 2016
Joined February 2016
Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."...
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Apr 14, 1986
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Betty Carter | GWC Braun memorial hall@norfolk state university | Norfolk, Virginia, United States | |
Jan 21, 1984
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Betty Carter | Loeb Playhouse, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States |
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