Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard

Infobox Album | Name = Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard
Type = Live Album
Artist = Betty Carter

| Released = 1970
Recorded = May 22, 1970 at the Village Vanguard
Genre = Jazz
Length = 40:23
Label = Bet-Car/Verve
Producer = Betty Carter
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qc2uak3kgm3z link] | Last album = "Now It's My Turn"
(1969)
This album = " Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard "
(1970)
Next album = "The Betty Carter Album"
(1972)|

"Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard" is a 1970 live album by Betty Carter featuring her performing with her trio at the Village Vanguard, the famous jazz club. It was the first release on Carter's own label, Bet-Car Records, and was originally titled simply "Betty Carter". The album was given its present title for its release on CD by Verve Records in 1993.

The track listing and personnel on "Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard" is very similar to that of the album "Finally, Betty Carter", which she recorded six months earlier. However, the original producer of "Finally" ran off with the master recording, and it remained unreleased until 1976. Carter released "At the Village Vanguard" on her own label to effectively supplant the stolen album in her discography. Despite the superficial similarities between the two albums, the more intimate setting and Carter's lively interplay with the audience give "At the Village Vanguard" a very different feel from "Finally", which was recorded at the Judson Hall Theatre.

Track listing

#"By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards, Bernhard Haig) 1:52
#"Ego" (Randy Weston, Betty Carter) 3:04
#"Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) 5:21
#"Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) 3:30
#"Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) 7:38
#"Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bob Troup) 4:20
#"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:08
#"All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Hammerstein) 0:59
#"I Could Write a Book" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:18
#"The Sun Died" (Ray Charles, Hubert Giraud, Anne Gregory, Pierre LeRoye) 5:31
#"Please Do Something" (Carter) 3:03

Personnel

Recorded May 22, 1970 at the Village Vanguard, New York City, New York, USA

* Betty Carter - vocals
* Norman Simmons - piano
* Lisle Atkinson - bass
* Al Harewood - drums