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...pace Williams had established was kept by the vocal trio of Lambert, Hendricks and Bevan and by the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Milt Jackson. Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Yolande Bevan use their voices as instruments, a singing techinque originated by King Pleasure. Singing the Miles Davis version of Bye, Bye Blackbird, Hendricks displayed a technical and emotional range he has never showed before...
...Yolande Bevan is a funny name for a jazz singer; but then, most jazz singers are not, like Miss Bevan, from Ceylon. Almost by accident, she met up with Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks and is now the third member of what used to be the Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross trio. (Annie Ross has returned to England for reasons of health.) The new trio's most recent release, Lambert, Hendricks, and Bevan at Basin Street East (RCA Victor 2635) is interesting solely for the novelty of a Ceylonese girl singing Charlie Parker-type solos...
...past decade, Labor's strength has been sapped by internal bickering and by the loss of many of its ablest men (Gaitskell, Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin, Aneurin Bevan). The feuding has faded, and Labor finds itself in the best shape in years to topple the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. A Gallup poll last week indicated that Labor had a 15½% lead over the Conservatives, the lowest the Tories have been in eleven years in power...
Having quit the Labor Cabinet in 1951, along with Firebrand Aneurin Bevan, Wilson has inherited much of Bevan's leftwing support. But in the Cabinet his main administrative achievement was the dismantling of a vast array of controls on Britain's postwar economy. He has always been more pragmatic than doctrinaire-or opportunistic, his enemies say. In a Commons speech last week he declared, "What I am saying may or may not be ideological, but it will get the export orders." With the left safely on his side, Wilson is shrewd enough to know that, as leader...
...Wilson was the first man on Mye Bevan's bandwagon and the first to leave it," Rodman said, and at the time of the intra-party debate on unilateral disarmament he was found talking both ways...