Great, Doug. I had Tribute to Jack Johnson on in the car yesterday, loud as
one should - but Mrs Sensitive Ears got in and turned it down ... Huh! We
drove to the shopping centre and I sat in the car in the carpark and cranked
it up again as she shopped inside. Galahs and kookaburras joined in above
the throbbing riff. Twenty minutes Varese would've liked ...
Andrew
2009/3/5 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Maybe it wont for you, Barry. And omigod,Lambert Hendricks & Ross, do I
> ever remember them, such fun!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Doug
> On 4-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
> Doug,
>>
>> I enjoyed the music registered in your language, but "Kind of Blue" didn't
>> come
>> immediately to mind. Will have to listen to the track (& then the whole
>> album) with your
>> text in front of my eyes.
>>
>> In a different register, though also performed in 1959, I've been
>> watching/listening to the
>> most striking scat singing I've ever encountered:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmUgDUx7o0
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
>
> Thelonious Monk
>
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Andrew
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