It's Not About the Melody

Infobox Album | Name = It's Not About the Melody
Type = Album
Artist = Betty Carter

| Released = 1992
Recorded = May 25-26 1992
Genre = Jazz
Length = 71:34
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Betty Carter
Reviews =
Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5r0qoalayijn link] | Last album = "Droppin' Things"
(1990)
This album = " It's Not About The Melody "
(1992)
Next album = "Feed the Fire"
(1996)|

"It's Not About the Melody" is a 1992 (see 1992 in music) album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter.

Track listing

For the 1992 Verve CD Issue 314-513870-2.
#"Naima's Love Song" (Betty Carter, John Hicks) – 8:25
#"Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 7:11
#"Make Him Believe" (Carter) – 5:10
#"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:26
#"Once upon a Summertime" (Eddie Barclay, Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Johnny Mercer) – 5:58
#"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:35
#"In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter) – 4:07
#"When It's Sleepy Time Down South" (Clarence Muse, Leon René, Otis Rene) – 7:45
#"The Love We Had Yesterday" (Pat Watson) – 7:17
#"Dip Bag" (Carter) – 8:57
#"You're Mine, You" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 7:12

Personnel

Recorded May 25 - 26, 1992, at the The Bottom Line, New York City:

* Cyrus Chestnut - piano
* John Hicks - piano
* Mulgrew Miller - Piano
* Craig Handy - tenor saxophone
* Walter Booker - double bass
* Christian McBride - double bass
* Ariel J. Roland - double bass
* Jeff "Tain" Watts - drums
* Lewis Nash - drums
* Clarence Penn - drums