Here's an amazing clip of Betty Carter on the Jay Leno show with Branford Marsalis in 1992. In her interview with Leno, which you can find on YouTube (but which I won't link here because of Leno's patronizing attitude), it comes up that Carter had only met Marsalis and his quartet that same day. You can sense a little bit of confusion in some places as the musicians try to keep up with Carter - drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts in particular takes a little while to nail the oddly placed hits, and Carter helps him out by signaling them more clearly the next time around. One of the best recordings of this song out there.
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