Social Call

Social Call
Studio album by
Released1980
RecordedMay 13, 1955 and April 25, 1956
GenreJazz
Length57:27
LabelColumbia
ProducerBetty Carter (reissue)
Betty Carter chronology
Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant
(1955)
Social Call
(1980)
Out There
(1958)
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Social Call is an album by Betty Carter featuring Ray Bryant and a big band arranged by Gigi Gryce. Of its eleven tracks, the first six were recorded in 1955 and originally released as part of the album Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant. The other five tracks were recorded in 1956 but remained unissued until this compilation, which Columbia Records released in 1980.