Betty Carter
USA
Born: 16 May 1929
Died: 26 September 1998
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Styles: Bop, Vocal Jazz, Vocal/Standards, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz/Groove
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Arguably the most adventurous female jazz singer of all time, Betty Carter was an idiosyncratic stylist and a restless improviser who pushed the limits of melody and harmony as much as any bebop horn player. The husky-voiced Carter was capable of radical, off-the-cuff reworkings of whatever she sang, abruptly changing tempos and dynamics, or rearranging the lyrics into distinctive, off-the-beat rhythmic patterns. She could solo for 20 minutes, scat at lightning speed, or drive home an emotion with wordless, bluesy moans and sighs. She wasn't qu...
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