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Betty Carter: After me there...

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After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Source: In Notes and Tones.
-- Betty Carter, (May 16 1929-1998), US jazz singer; She began her career as a be-bop and scat singer by winning amateur night at the Apollo; worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles and Charlie Parker.

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