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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
Acer pehpeiense
acid-base catalyst
actio exercitoria
administrative landing
amino acid-tolerance test
antimicrosomal
arteriae epigastrica inferior
asymptotically equal function
Berw.
bond restrictions on dividends
cap-a-pie
ceratiomyxa fruticulosa descendens
Choti Bāla
circular coordinates
closterium ehrenbergii menegh.
Coleman, Ornette
collector bag
Collusulfar
continued bond
correct error
countercurrent circulation
default account
delayed reinforcement
deore
diamond glass cutter
diode noise
diorite-plagiogranitic
dog-rescues
dorsal common annular ligament
duotheism
easement of light
electro-striction
Elphemet
endogenous clock
entailed interest
erectly
exclusive dealing contract
family Palmaceae
flammable(compressed)gas
Francke's striae
generic top-level domain
genus lumpenuss
haramizes
heart-health
heterokaryotic mycelium
high pressure cutout switch
Hydrangea taronensis
i'v
inter-city relay race
ionic loudspeaker
Johann Sebastian Bach
joint arm
Lao-Tsu
large NC wire-cut EDM machine
light textured confection
Lindeman's law
lio-
MAOSFET
measured rudder angle
measuring element
mesocoelia
metal-coated plastic strip
metopions
moulting
mylar balloon
nitrogen-fixing
non-reduceds
nondirective therapy
nonirrigable rice field
nonlinear waveshaping circuit
Orth's Fluid
partitionless
pasztis
photogenically
physiological ecology,physioecology
press ban
protoplasmic cell
quenching water
racahs
rehyphenates
return for
scovil
segreto
select order
semi industrial
shekyr
soybean cutter
stram
supersensitization
supersonic sink
symbolic violence
syngenetic oil
tangential longitudinal section
Tokugawa Hidetada
Toonanin
underwater blasting
unfinishable
upper greensand
variable-elevation beam
Veal Renh, Chhak
Veratrum puberulum Loes.
water-savings