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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
antipyrine chloralhydrate
appearance bond
atrial systole
azimuth by pole star
balance canoe
belehradek
benzeneazo-anisidine
casadevall
choreographic
come into existence
compessure
counter conditionings
Dendrotrophe frutescens
Department of Health and Social Security
digital to AC converter
disintegration curve
doggit
double shifting
e-tech
edge detector
Edolan
emulsic
Equityholders
equivalent sample
eucalyptus maculatas
Fissura sphenopetrosa
fleshed
foshallassite
Friville-Escarbotin
frostbird
funds held in custody
fuse-plug
gasoline furnace
gear-tooth micrometer
gelatine leaves
go through with something
gold bar
harmony management
Heaviside-Lorentz unit
heimaeys
heuristit programming
hydrophilous pollination
in open court
in-line combine
internal combrstion turbine
involucels
isotack
karyotin
Khānigaon
Kolbäcksån
lentiglobus
levitating field
logical array
mating groups
mavericky
mbangura
MDF
megahertz
micced
mild weather
miridical
multi-product firm
mutilus nodulosus
Myrj
niddms
on-the-job training (ojt)
over expenditure
pacaranas
papalise
paracletes
patrologies
periodontal disease index
post-modernity
potassium fluorotantalate
pre-metallised dye
publike
radio-influence field
refrigerated industry
rotating dumbbell pseudo-gravity station
semisynthetic fibre
sign-alternating focusing
single wire
solanum jasmoidess
somatology
sound-range
statement of stockholder's investment
station call
stationary distribution
sulphide (sulfide)
sutural groove
text adventures
thio-aldehyde
three-winding transformer
tight-spiral
trade channels
Ttalcum
underwatered
unwronging
upper leather tannery
uranium jacket
venter ilii
worm lizards