Inside Betty Carter
Inside Betty Carter is a 1964 Betty Carter album. It contains the first recording of Carter's signature song, "Open the Door". Originally released on the United Artists label with eight tracks, it was reissued by Capitol Records in 1993 with seven previously unreleased tracks from a 1965 recording session that included Kenny Burrell on guitar. Carter said in 1979 that "Inside Betty Carter" was one of her two favorite albums out of the eleven she had recorded to date. Reception. Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, gave "Inside Betty Carter" two and a half stars out of  five. Yanow commented that "These recordings can be considered the final ones of Betty Carter's early period for, by the time she next appeared on record...the singer was much more adventurous in her improvisations...Highly recommended to Betty Carter fans and to those listeners who find her later work somewhat forbidding." "Ebony" magazine described "Inside Betty Carter" on its 1973 reissue as "...nothing less than a "tour de force" of the jazz singer's art...the sensitivity of her renditions is simply shattering. The unusual high quality of this album causes one to ask why more of her  recordings are not on the market." Personnel. Recorded April 1964 at Sound Makers, New York City, New York, USA Recorded March 4 and May 26, 1965 at Regent Sound, New York City, New York, USA