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For|the 1970 album originally titled "Betty Carter"|Betty Carter at the Village VanguardInfobox musical artist| name = Betty Carter| image = CarterBetty19861025.jpg| alt =| caption = Betty Carter, Lucerna Hall, Prague, 25 October 1986| landscape = yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Lillie Mae Jones| alias =| birth_date = Birth date|1929|5|16|mf=y| birth_place = Flint, Michigan|Flint , Michigan United States | death_date = death date and age|1998|9|26|1929|5|16|mf=y| death_place =| genre = Jazz , post-bop | occupation = Musician | instrument = Singing|Vocals | years_active = 1948–1998| label = Columbia Records|Columbia , Peacock Records|Peacock , ABC Records|ABC , Atco Records|Atco , United Artists Records|United Artists , Roulette Records|Roulette , Bet-Car Records|Bet-Car , Verve Records|Verve | associated_acts =| url =| notable_instruments = Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones , May 16, 1929Bauer, William R. Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 9. & ndash; September 26, 1998) was an United States|American jazz singer known for her Musical improvisation|improvisational technique. Vocalist Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."Bauer, William R. xiv.
Early life
San Francisco, CA 2/16/1979 (photo: Brian McMillen) Carter was born in Flint, Michigan and grew up in Detroit , where her father led a church choir. She studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. 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 , Ray Charles and Miles Davis .
Career
Carter honed her scat singing ability while on tour with Lionel Hampton in the late 1940s. Hampton's wife Gladys gave her the nickname "Betty Bebop ", a nickname she reportedly detested. In the 1950s Carter made recordings with King Pleasure and the Ray Bryant Trio. Her first solo LP, Out There (Betty Carter album)|Out There , was released on the Peacock Records|Peacock label in 1958.
Carter's career was eclipsed somewhat through the 1960s and 1970s, though a series of duet s with Ray Charles in 1961, including the Rhythm and blues|R& B -chart-topping " Baby, It's Cold Outside (song)|Baby, It's Cold Outside ," brought her a measure of popular recognition. In 1963 she toured in Japan with Sonny Rollins . She recorded for various labels during this period, including ABC Records|ABC-Paramount , Atco Records|Atco and United Artists Records|United Artists , but was rarely satisfied with the resulting product.
In 1970, a record company A& R man tried to run off with a set of her master recording s; the incident led her to establish her own record label, Bet-Car Records|Bet-Car . Some of her most famous recordings were originally issued on Bet-Car, including the double album The Audience with Betty Carter (1980). In 1980 she was the subject of a documentary film by Michelle Parkerson, ''But Then, She's Betty Carter .
In the last decade of her life, Carter finally began to receive wider acclaim and recognition. In 1987 she signed with Verve Records , who reissue d most of her Bet-Car albums on CD for the first time and made them available to wider audiences. In 1988 she won a Grammy Award|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? "). In 1994 she performed at the White House and was a headliner at Verve's 50th anniversary celebration in Carnegie Hall . She was the subject of a 1994 short film by Dick Fontaine , Betty Carter: New All the Time .
In 1997 she was awarded a National Medal of Arts by Bill Clinton|President Bill Clinton . Carter remained active in jazz until her death from pancreatic cancer in 1998, aged 69.
Legacy
Carter often recruited young accompanists for performances and recordings, insisting that she "learned a lot from these young players, because they're raw and they come up with things that I would never think about doing."cite web | title=Betty Carter: Still taking risks | url= http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/interviews/carter.html | publisher=Seth Rogovoy | accessdate=September 22, 2011
In 1993, Carter helped launch the Jazz Ahead program for young musicians at the Kennedy Center . She also devoted much of her time and energy in her last few decades to touring colleges and grade-schools across the country.
Miscellaneous
Carter is mentioned along with other jazz luminaries in Gang Starr 's jazz rap "Jazz Thing."
In 1999 she was posthumously inducted into the Down Beat Down Beat|Jazz Hall of Fame .
She is name-checked in Chapter 22 of Saul Williams 's The Dead Emcee Scrolls .
Discography
; Columbia Records|Columbia
1955 Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant (with Ray Bryant )
1956 Social Call
; Peacock Records|Peacock
1958 Out There (Betty Carter album)|Out There
; ABC Records|ABC
1960 The Modern Sound of Betty Carter
1961 Ray Charles and Betty Carter (with Ray Charles )
; Atco Records|Atco
1963 '' 'Round Midnight (1963 Betty Carter album)|'Round Midnight
; United Artists Records|United Artists / Capitol Records|Capitol
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php? id=21747 Profile of Carter from allaboutjazz.com
http://home.att.net/~timcramm/betty.htm Website about Carter
http://streams.wgbh.org/online/play.php? xml=specials/jazz_conversations/jazz_1991_05_30_carter_betty.xml& template=wgbh_audio Jazz Conversations with Eric Jackson: Betty Carter from http://www.wgbh.org/jazz WGBH Radio Boston
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