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Bebop Spoken There

Lew Shaw (Syncopated Times' columnist): "My interest [at 95] is in classic jazz. The numbers aren't what they were 40 years ago, but I'm encouraged by the number of young musicians playing that style and the young audiences they attract." - (The Syncopated Times January 2021)

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

Postage

12,369 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 12 years ago. 88 of them this year alone and, so far, 88 this month (Jan. 18).

Monday January 18

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSAN TOBOCMAN & ANDY PANAYI.

Friday, February 21, 2014

‘Jazz Study Links Music And Language’

Does this mean we jazz bloggers are all geniuses?
I spotted this news item in the ‘I’ (Independent) newspaper on Thursday this week.  It said that there had been a study done at John Hopkins University in Maryland (USA) which showed that jazz players ‘activate parts of their brain normally associated with spoken language’.  Apparently improvisation activates brain areas linked to language processing, which helps with interpreting the structure of phrases and sentences.
Now by my reckoning, users of this blog come well out of this, as we all deal with jazz, and we read and write about it as well.  This includes we singers, especially those who use lots of scat (Note to myself: must start scatting more!) Just a thought.
Ann Alex
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