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Betty Carter Remembered

by Dee Dee McNeil
May 13, 2006

On a smoggy summer day in the mid-1970's, Soul & Jazz Record magazine scheduled my interview with Betty “Be Bop Carter. Even then she was legendary. Lillie Mae Jones, soon to become Betty Carter, grew up traveling between Flint and jny: Detroit chasing scat dreams. Ultimately, Lillie Mae would become the world's Be Bop Queen, donning ...