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英语课

By Doug Levine
Washington
25 June 2006
 
  
  
It's not often you hear someone singing songs by Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane. In fact, you might wonder if it's ever been done at all.


Until now, jazz vocalists have kept to the straight-and-narrow, singing songs from the Great American Songbook or trying out new material that never strayed too far from the pop mainstream 1. Until now, jazz vocalists were more or less content singing the tried, the true, and the time-honored songs that audiences love to hear. That is, until Karrin Allyson.


Karrin Allyson came along at just the right time. In an age of sensory 2 overload 3, Allyson figured out that the best way to cut through all the noise was to make the music less noisy. And with jazz being one of the most demanding genres 4 in terms of its constant need for attention, well the simpler the better.


Interestingly, it was classical piano that first drew Karrin Allyson to music. Later, with an overwhelming desire to sing, she tried '70s pop, then funk-rock, and finally jazz at a nightclub in downtown Kansas City.


A string of successful albums now finds Allison living and working in New York City, where great studio musicians are readily available. It only makes senses to have the best when improvising 5 jazz by Horace Silver, Nat Adderly, Wayne Shorter and Oscar Brown, Junior.


Listen to Karrin Allyson as she shifts into high gear on "Everybody's Boppin'" from her new album "Footprints," featuring guest vocalists Jon Hendricks and Nancy King



n.(思想或行为的)主流;adj.主流的
  • Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
  • Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。
adj.知觉的,感觉的,知觉器官的
  • Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
  • The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
vt.使超载;n.超载
  • Don't overload the boat or it will sink.别超载,否则船会沉。
  • Large meals overload the digestive system.吃得太饱会加重消化系统的负担。
(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格( genre的名词复数 )
  • Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
  • But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆,古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
即兴创作(improvise的现在分词形式)
  • I knew he was improvising, an old habit of his. 我知道他是在即兴发挥,这是他的老习惯。
  • A few lecturers have been improvising to catch up. 部分讲师被临时抽调以救急。
学英语单词
a gentleman of the press
Abrogen
absolvitors
amphipermeability
Anthracenediones
aoki
Asynchronous.
atomic memory
barley awner
barona
bedilt
boat boom
breast club
by nightfall
calcium D-saccharate
calibration equation
Castelldans
cefamezin
chantor
charteringagreement
cobalt(ii) oxalate
cocksuckas
compiled list
cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
dalmatian
danger buoy
davallia subsolida ching
direct fracture
Doradexanthin
dry photoetching technology
Dunǎrii, Delta
dutton r.
enantiomorphism
fixed supply
free radical inhibitor
function table
gallium arsenide (GaAs) detector
generis
governing
hardbakes
heterodistylous flower
high-frequency millivolt meter
homotypic effect
hone spacing block
hushable
hyperglobinaemia
insel
intra-capillary
investigation report
Kenyanized
labchip
lances
lap in
laphris emarginata rufofulva
leak resistance
Let go!
liquefied natural gas(LNG)
loather
lock strut
lost production time
louh
low-smokes
lyricising
manuss
masserate
meagre coal
milk separation
net register
outspend
overwrapping
ozone-hole
permethrinase
pholades
photoamplifier circuit
post-and-stall method
precheck
prize broker
publicly owned company
rescuable
restreet
rhubarbs
ride criteria
shizao decoction
shortcut multiplication
shut one's yap
soup ... up
spacetime coordinates
structuralised
sundry accounts
supernaturals
systemic reaction
taken precautions against
tattooing lid margin
Tormoshangsa
tzaddiks
unit unity
unpredict-able
vehicle ride comfort
vibrating mirror
wall-type door stop
without horns
Wollemia