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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
above-critical mass
acidic media
acquitting
adar shenis
Al Butānah
Alaquines
alkaline fertilizer
all-electric signalling
arnaldo
assembler output
bank annuities
boehner
bourding
bubblelike
bulkhead step
calcareous alluvial soil
Calvin Klein
capacity booster
chinese relational database operator
chlamys hastata
compensating equipment
conservative constituents
cyberself
data flow resource manager
delusting
diacetylene polymer
diffuse reflector
discovery ship
Dyassic
Edinger's nuclei
El Guamache
empugned
equal-status
even number of threads
file security function
fire gilding
Frederick I
Fūlādābād
gadre
gasification system
Heterodonta
hierarchy problem
hook and loop
hu yeh
immersion tank
inaccuracy of measurement
inescapable accident
inkled
Inspections Clause
intercomparison of methods
jacketing
L.C.L.
lifejacket chest
live practice
luten
magasporangium
melt back process
microstromatolite
modern first (edition)
multi-buoy mooring
multiplier amplifier section
Musculus flexor hallucis longus
no lond current
nodular-fireclay
non inflammable fluid
nonreflective
ofloxacin
oobladong
oupa
overobvious
overwin
Petelino
phoracanthol
porous-type strongbase resin
pre-employment examination
preclose
precracking
prostethium
reblow
reserve battery
row sb up
sardinian law
scanning transmission electron microscope
seismic effects
shieldcabl
Shāhdād
sliding-contact bearing
soda bread flour
special unemployment assistance
staircase method
statistic map
steel channel
submicrostructure
supershow
Sǒdu-ri
t'ui tsou t'u
thiiranes
vasovagal syndrome
vertical folder
vibros
wet sand yard
wire bond