0412 Betty Smith [With You In Mind] FLAC 9(48.04)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
Betty Smith sings (all tracks except 03) and plays tenor sax (all tracks except 02, 05 and 07) with the Tony Lee Trio in 1978.
Tony plays mainly electric piano here (all tracks except 01 and 09) which is not to everyone's taste but he is one of the better players on this instrument and it is a fine swinging little group enhanced by Betty's vocals.

Tony Lee - piano, electric piano
Tony Archer - bass
Jack Parnell - drums
Betty Smith - vocal

01 Sunday (Conn, Miller, Kreuger, Styne) (5:02)
02 You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye, De Paul) (5:07)
03 Double Shuffle (3:47)
04 Once In A While (Green, Edwards) (5:37)
05 I Thought Of You Last Night (Freed) (3:37)
06 Haunted Ballroom (Feldman, Adamo) (4:12)
07 Sunday Kind Of Love (Belle, Prima, Leonard, Rhodes) (6:34)
08  I Found A New Baby (Palmer, Williams) (6:26)
09 Mad About Him Blues (Charles, Markes) (7:42)

Label: Jingles Records LYN 5869/5870
Recorded: August 1978
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0207 [The Betty Smith Quintet] FLAC 4(10.30)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
There are not many lady jazz musicians but here is one who, as far as I know, is still around but perhaps not playing.
Betty was married to the bass player, Jack Peberdy, at the time of these recordings in 1957 and was known as much for her singing as her tenor playing.
Three vocals here and just one feature for her tenor which is a pity.
FLAC with scans of ep sleeve.

(01)
Betty Smith - vocal
Terry Walsh - guitar
Barry Phillips - guitar
Jack Peberdy - bass
Stan Bourke - drums
(02)
Betty Smith - tenor
Brian Lemon - piano
Terry Walsh - guitar
Jack Peberdy - bass
Stan Bourke - drums
(03 04)
Betty Smith - vocal
Terry Walsh - guitar
Ray Dempsey - guitar
Jack Peberdy - bass
Stan Bourke - drums

01 There's A Blue Ridge Round My Heart Virginia (Bryan, Phillips, Schuster)
02 Who's Sorry Now (Snyder, Kalmar, Ruby)
03 Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia (Ager, Meyer, Clarke)
04 Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now (Donaldson)

Label: Decca DFE 6446
Recorded: July 02 (01) November 11 (02-04) 1957
Lineage: EP>FLAC