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Bebop Spoken There

Tina May: "It's a broad umbrella, jazz, but to me there has to be improvisation. If that's not there, to me, it's not really jazz." - (Jazzwise March 2021)

Archive quotes.

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".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Postage

13,132 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 13 years ago. 551 of them this year alone and, so far, 106 this month (April 22).

Coming soon ...

April 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen are back at The Holystone.

May 20 Maine Street Jazzmen are back at Sunniside Social Club.
May 23: Vieux Carré Hot Four are back at The Spanish City.

June 2: Vieux Carré Jazzmen are back at Cullercoats Crescent Club.
June 7: Jazz in the Afternoon are back at Cullercoats Crescent Club.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

RIP Betty Bennett (1921 - 2020)

Another iconic figure passed away on April 7. Betty Bennett sang with most of the big bands from the 1940s onward. Georgie Auld, Claude Thornhill, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Charlie Ventura and many more. She didn't have a good word to say about BG or Ventura or most of the various bands' sidemen - Conte Candoli being a notable exception...

Her marriages included, most famously, Andre Previn as well as Mundell Lowe.

For a fuller insight into her life - warts and all - read the link to Marc Myers' Jazz Wax site.
Betty Bennett was 98.
Sadly missed.
Lance
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1 comment :

Liz said...

Many years ago my son managed Lovely ( Alicia) Previn. She was the daughter of Betty Bennett & Andre Previn. Lovely stayed with us in our home in York for an overnight. She was a delightful, happy go lucky young woman.

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