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\"\"<\/a>Beth Ullman\u00a0<\/strong>has been wowing audiences in the southwest for the past twenty years with her innovative renditions of jazz standards. Her 1994 debut CD, \u201cAren\u2019t We the Lucky Ones,\u201d garnered enthusiastic reviews from\u00a0JAZZTIMES<\/cite>\u00a0and CADENCE<\/cite>\u00a0magazines, the latter noting: \u201d She has an absolutely exquisite instrument.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s hard to resist the sublime and haunting interpretations of vocalist Beth Ullman.\u201d\u00a0JAZZIZ<\/cite>, May 1995. \u201cThe lady swings hard and positively shines on ballads.\u201d\u00a0CADENCE<\/cite>, April 1995. \u201cUllman\u2019s vocals connect both head and heart. A virtuoso musician.\u201d Michael Point,\u00a0Austin American Statesman<\/cite>. Ms. Ullman has also released two CDs that are a unique blend of pop and new age styles of original meditation music: \u201cGo Within\u201d and \u201cRemember Me.\u201d KUT-FM Public Radio host John Aielli selected \u201cGo Within\u201d as his favorite release of 1998. In July of 2011, Aardvark Records released her all-original compositions CD “We’ve Got Tonight.”\u00a0 Ms. Ullman recently retired from the Commercial Music Faculty at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, where she was an instructor of voice and vocal ensemble, a vocal arranger and accompanist. She has also sung for Disney Films.<\/p>\n

In her own words:<\/strong><\/em>
\nAs a kid the only time I was allowed in the kitchen (other than to do the dishes) was to make spaghetti. That was on the nights that my parents threw dinner parties for their faculty chums at Purdue, where my father was a business professor. So I grew up in a family where throwing dinner parties was a regular occurrence. But I didn’t get to eat any of the food, and there were never any leftovers! My grandparents on my dad’s side were both gourmet cooks (meaning that you put wine into EVERYTHING) and as kids, we ate lavishly and well.\u00a0 My father used to chide us about how well we ate and how poorly most of the rest of the kids in the world ate…\u00a0 So I grew up liking and expecting a lot from my food.\u00a0 And to this day, my boyfriend says it’s a good thing I live in the gym, because all I talk about is food. My ex-husband used to say I lived for my lunch.\u00a0 I am a diehard fan of sweets.\u00a0 I love ice cream and I love to bake cookies.\u00a0 I make a mean ginger-infused pumpkin cheesecake with a homemade gingersnap crust every Thanksgiving, and a killer pumpkin bread pudding. I love cooking for others, and every week end I spend a large part of my time in the kitchen, barefoot, with a spatula…\u00a0 I taught myself how to cook and grew up laughing with Julia Child. (I, too, must have a glass of wine, or nothing comes out right. I can’t fathom eating dinner without it.)\u00a0 I’ll never forget what Julia did to that poor chicken…\u00a0 I cook both with and without recipes.\u00a0 The only food I detest is liver. Oh yeah, and I don’t eat eggs. My grandmother told me if I didn’t, I would lose my teeth. I didn’t believe her for one second, and I still eschew eggs.\u00a0 The ideal meal to me would be large, deep-fried Gulf prawns, with chocolate bread pudding for dessert. Give me a dinner bell and I’ll ring it!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beth Ullman\u00a0has been wowing audiences in the southwest for the past twenty years with her innovative renditions of jazz standards. Her 1994 debut CD, \u201cAren\u2019t We the Lucky Ones,\u201d garnered enthusiastic reviews from\u00a0JAZZTIMES\u00a0and CADENCE\u00a0magazines, the latter noting: \u201d She has an absolutely exquisite instrument.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s hard to resist the sublime \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeatdivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}