Droppin' Things

1990 live album by Betty Carter

Droppin' Things

Live album by

Betty Carter

Released

September 1990

Recorded

Recorded May 25–26, 1990, at The Bottom Line, New York City and June 7, at Mastersound, New York City

Genre

Vocal jazz

Length

61:34

Label

Verve 843 991-2

Producer

Betty Carter

Betty Carter chronology

Look What I Got!
(1988)

Droppin' Things
(1990)

It's Not About the Melody
(1992)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Droppin' Things is a 1990 live album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter.^[2]

At the 32nd Grammy Awards, Carter's performance on this album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.

Droppin' Things peaked at 3 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote that Droppin' Things "solidified her [Carter's] credentials as one of jazz's top singers", and described the music as "consistently stimulating".^[2]

Track listing

For the 1990 Verve CD Issue, 843991-2.

"30 Years" (Betty Carter) – 3:58
"Stardust"/"Memories of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)/(Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 12:37
"What's the Use of Wond'rin'?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:22
"Open the Door '90" (Carter) – 5:20
"Droppin' Things" (Carter) – 6:34
"I Love Music" (Emile Boyd, Hal Smith) – 7:40
"Why Him?" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 7:50
"Dull Day (In Chicago)" (Carter) – 12:13

Personnel

Performance

Production

Chris Thompson - art direction
Joe Ferla - engineer, mixing, recording
Joe Newland - digital editor
Ed Korengo, Dave Parla, David Merrill - assistant engineer
Rich Cook - liner notes
Susan Ragan, Courtney Brown Jr. - photography
Ora Ross Harris - project coordinator
Shelia Mathis - product manager
David Lau - design
Kooster McAlister, Paul Prestopino - Record Plant remote

References

^ Yanow, Scott. Droppin' Things at AllMusic
^ ^a ^b ^c Droppin' Things at AllMusic
^ Droppin' Things - Awards at AllMusic

Bauer, William R. (2002). Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-47206-791-6.

Geri Allen

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.

Albums as leader
or co-leader

The Printmakers (1984)
Home Grown (1985)
Open on All Sides in the Middle (1986)
In the Year of the Dragon (1989)
Segments (1989)
Twylight (1989)
Live at the Village Vanguard (1990)
The Nurturer (1990)
Maroons (1992)
Twenty One (1994)
Eyes in the Back of Your Head (1995–96)
Some Aspects of Water (1996)
The Gathering (1998)
The Life of a Song (2004)
Timeless Portraits and Dreams (2006)
Flying Toward the Sound (2008)
Geri Allen & Timeline Live (2009)
A Child Is Born (2011)
Grand River Crossings (2012)
A Lovesome Thing (2012)

With Oliver Lake

Expandable Language (1984)
Otherside (1988)
Talkin' Stick (1997)
At This Time (2008)

With others

Movies (Franco Ambrosetti, 1986)
Movies Too (Franco Ambrosetti, 1988)
The Collective (Cecil Brooks III, 1989)
Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1989)
Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
Feed the Fire (Betty Carter, 1993)
Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Ornette Coleman, 1996)
Sound Museum: Three Women (Ornette Coleman, 1996)
Motherland Pulse (Steve Coleman, 1985)
Flute Talk (Buddy Collette, 1988)
Etudes (Charlie Haden, 1987)
The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Charlie Haden, 1989)
The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden, 1989)
Reflections in Change (Craig Handy, 1999)
Lift Every Voice (Charles Lloyd, 2002)
Jumping the Creek (Charles Lloyd, 2004)
Decision in Paradise (Frank Lowe, 1984)
Monk in Motian (Paul Motian, 1988)
Mindgames (Greg Osby, 1988)
Living on the Edge (Dewey Redman, 1989)
Crunchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993)
Munchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993)
Bemsha Swing (Woody Shaw, 1986)
By Any Means Necessary (Gary Thomas, 1989)

v t e Betty Carter
Studio albums	Social Call Out There The Modern Sound of Betty Carter 'Round Midnight Inside Betty Carter Now It's My Turn The Betty Carter Album Look What I Got! It's Not About the Melody I'm Yours, You're Mine
Duet albums	Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant Ray Charles and Betty Carter The Carmen McRae – Betty Carter Duets
Live albums	Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard Finally, Betty Carter Round Midnight The Audience with Betty Carter Whatever Happened to Love? Droppin' Things Feed the Fire
Compilations	I Can't Help It
Related articles	"Open the Door"

v t e Freddie Hubbard
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Open Sesame (1960) Goin' Up (1960) Hub Cap (1961) Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961) Ready for Freddie (1961) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Hub-Tones (1962) Here to Stay (1962) The Body & the Soul (1963) Breaking Point! (1964) Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965) The Night of the Cookers (1965) Blue Spirits (1965–66) Backlash (1966) High Blues Pressure (1967) A Soul Experiment (1968–69) The Black Angel (1969) The Hub of Hubbard (1970) Red Clay (1970) Straight Life (1970) Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970) First Light (1971) Polar AC (1971–73) Sky Dive (1972) Keep Your Soul Together (1973) Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973) In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974) High Energy (1974) Gleam (1975) Liquid Love (1975) Windjammer (1976) Bundle of Joy (1977) Super Blue (1978) The Love Connection (1979) Skagly (1979) Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980) Born to Be Blue (1981) Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981) Outpost (1981) Rollin' (1981) Splash (1981) Above & Beyond (1982) Back to Birdland (1982) Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982) Ride Like the Wind (1982) The Rose Tattoo (1983) Sweet Return (1983) Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985) Life Flight (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987) Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988) Times Are Changing (1989) Topsy – Standard Book (1989) Bolivia (1990–91) At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991) Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991) Blues for Miles (1992) MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95) New Colors (2000) On the Real Side (2007)
With Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers	Mosaic (1961) Buhaina's Delight (1961) Blues March (1961) Three Blind Mice (1961) Caravan (1962) Ugetsu (1963) Kyoto (1964) Free for All (1964) Golden Boy (1965) Soul Finger (1965)
With Dexter Gordon	Doin' Allright (1961) Clubhouse (1965) Generation (1973) The Other Side of Round Midnight (1986)
With Herbie Hancock	Takin' Off (1962) Empyrean Isles (1964) Maiden Voyage (1965) Blow-Up (soundtrack album, 1966) V.S.O.P. (1977) V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977) V.S.O.P. Tempest in the Colosseum (1977) V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1977) Round Midnight (soundtrack album, 1985)
With Bobby Hutcherson	Dialogue (1965) Components (1965) Knucklebean (1977) Highway One (1978)
With Quincy Jones	I Dig Dancers (1960) The Quintessence (1962) Golden Boy (1964) I/We Had a Ball (1964–65) Walking in Space (1969) Gula Matari (1970)
With Wayne Shorter	Wayning Moments (1961) Speak No Evil (1964) The Soothsayer (1965) The All Seeing Eye (1965)
With others	The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966) The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969) Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960) True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960) God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971) Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979) Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990) Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960) Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961) Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961) Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965) Muses for Richard Davis (1969) Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960) Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964) Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960) Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973) Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967) Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962) Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962) Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961) Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962) Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959) Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961) Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962) Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996) Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965) Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965) Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972) Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973) 52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978) Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988) J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960) Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982) Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62) Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979) Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963) Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961) MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994) Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958) Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960) The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961) Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966) The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967) Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965) Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965) East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966) Numbers (Rufus, 1978) Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965) Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973) Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970) Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978) Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980) Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960) Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)