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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
Abu Bakr
accompany sb to
Alexander VII
amegboh
anadidymus
anchor eye
area modulus
arm's-length
arrheniusequation
assembly line processing
aural catarrh
aviator-style
betokened
blizzard fatality
Bottu's test
bridgesii
bromohyperhidrosis
built in homojunction
burseys
canion
carrion beetle
center slicing
Cheddar Gorge
Chongsǒng-gun
cipolla
circuit quality automatic check equipment
claw-coupling
coleretico
commn ratio
compensation for mobilization
complete photoelectric emission
deserve credit for
diectional emissivity
disserves
exhaustive search procedure
fabric reinforced polymer composite
fly
forest in use
Foxton
fuck faces
functionally complete
go cap in hand to sb
Greinacher circuit
hand back something
high-tailed
Hilbert-Schmidt expansion theorem
hordeum pusillums
i-saved
immunopotency
legal exchange rate
let-alone
lilioid
long-band
loss due to condensation
maculatuss
mean-square-error
meat concentrate
membrane junction
molten-salt reactor
neuroradiologists
nitrosylsulfuric acid
nodi lymphatci phrenici inferiores
nonautonomous system
Ober-Grafendorf
oil-ring sticking
output picture
patent reexamination board
peritumorally
Peucedanum stepposum
photoserigraph
potential distribution in a transformer winding
powdered goods
pulaskite pegmatite
Pyatirech'ye
qnan
record analysis
recovery capability
remanent strain
residential accommodation
resistance network analogy
retain varying portions of profit
rheumatic fevers
Rhododendron rhombifolium
rhododendron rufohirtum hand-mazz
ribibe
Shevchenko
Siluko
sir edward pellew group
slide seal self sealing coupling
Smilyan
solid lubricants
student-newman-keuls
swept-focus
Symon's cone crusher
take a licking
take the mickey
tanned red cell hemagglutination
thermal death points
ultra-high vacuum pump
veni, vidi, vici
yaross
youth training