Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant is a
1955 jazz album by singer
Betty Carter and pianist
Ray Bryant both debuting here on record as leading artists.[3] Although Carter is mentioned first, she is only featured on half of the tracks. On three of the six songs
Jerome Richardson is also heard on flute.[4] The other half is recorded by the Ray Bryant Trio alone.
The six tracks with Betty Carter were reissued under her name in 1980 on the compilation album Social Call together with previously unreleased material from a 1956 recording session with
Gigi Gryce.
^According to the original liner notes. Ray Bryant was at least part of the recording session for an album by
Toots Thielemans in January 1955 (cf.
Ray Bryant discography on Jazzdisco.org)