Betty Carter: The Music Never Stops (back cover)

Twenty-seven years after the fact: a tour de force!

The Music Never Stops
— Betty Carter

Audio CD (29 March 2019)
Label: Blue Engine Records
Catalog No.: BE0014
UPC: 8-57509-00517-9
Format: Domestic
Number of Discs: 1

▶ Front cover: here.

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1. Ms. B.C. 3:10
2. Make It Last 5:45
3. 30 Years 4:35
4. Why Him? / Where or When / What's New? 15:46
5. Tight! / Mr. Gentleman 4:32
6. Social Call 2:29
7. Moonlight in Vermont 4:37
8. The Good Life 5:47
9. Bridges 9:30
10. If I Should Lose You 6:47
11. Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love 4:27
12. Make Him Believe 5:26
13. Frenesi 3:14

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☞ Leader, vocals: Betty Carter

☞ Small Group
Geri Allen: piano
Cyrus Chestnut: piano
Ariel Roland: bass
Greg Hutchinson: drums
Clarence Penn: drums

☞ The Big Band
Jerry Dodgion: alto saxophone
Rick Wald: alto saxophone
Alex Foster: tenor saxophone
Lou Marini: tenor saxophone
Joe Temperley: baritone saxophone
Art Baron: trombone
Robin Eubanks: trombone
Joe Randazzo: trombone
Lew Soloff: trumpet
Earl Gardner: trumpet
Ron Tooley: trumpet
Kamau Adilifu: trumpet
John Hicks: piano
Lisle Atkinson: bass
Kenny Washington: drums

☞ The Strings
Jeanne LeBlanc: cello
Akua Dixon: cello
Julie Green: cello
Bruce Wang: cello
John Beal: bass
Dave Finck: bass

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▶ "The Music Never Stops is a beautiful piece of unheard history: an archival recording of a concert headlined by the late, great vocalist Betty Carter. Recorded in 1992 [six years before Carter's death], the show was a centerpiece of one of Jazz at Lincoln Center's earliest seasons. She assembled three trios, a big band [her first with a big band in three decades], and a string section on the stage and darted back and forth between the different ensembles, transitioning seamlessly and effortlessly between burning be-bop and deeply felt ballads, wearing out the musicians with her stamina. The album highlights the legendary Carter's many talents: her effortless way with a melody, her endlessly inventive improvisations, and her unparalleled ability to build both a narrative and a mood by spontaneously weaving jazz standards and her own genius material together. But this concert wasn't just another night for Carter, and the record also features contributions from some of the best contemporary jazz instrumentalists working in NYC. The music contained everything one would anticipate from Carter: mesmerizing balladry, exhilarating swing, impeccable lyricism, stunning improvisation, and brilliantly constructed song-stories that are still visionary today."

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