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英语课

By Doug Levine
Washington
07 August 2006

Summertime is peak season for jazz festivals across the United States. From coast to coast, in small towns and big cities, fans have been lining 1 up early for the best seats in the house, or depending on the venue 2, the most comfortable spot on the lawn. This year's JVC Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, is still considered one of the top destinations for the serious jazz fan.


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Fans applaud The Dave Brubeck Quartet as they return to the stage for an encore at Newport Jazz Festival in 2004
Fans applaud The Dave Brubeck Quartet as they return to the stage for an encore at Newport Jazz Festival in 2004


 
 
 



For those who wait all year for live jazz, the only summer weekend worth waiting for begins and ends with Newport's JVC Jazz Festival. That's not to say there aren't any other great jazz festivals. It's just that once you've been to Newport, chances are you'll be back.


Tradition is one of the festival's main calling cards. Since 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival, as it was first known, has had its share of big names. The early years featured Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, The Count Basie Band and Bill Evans. Later, after moving its locale to New York City to escape unruly crowds, it returned to Newport under the sponsorship of the JVC Corporation. With a backdrop of sailboats on Narragansett Bay, the tastiest delicacies 3 New England has to offer, and three stages providing non-stop jazz, it's no wonder flights are booked, hotel rooms reserved and concerts sold out 52 weeks in advance.


Making his debut 4 at the JVC Jazz Festival in Newport is singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli, who officially opens the festivities with vocalist Jane Monheit on August 11th. The John Pizzarelli Big Band will pay tribute to Frank Sinatra with music from his new CD, Dear Mr. Sinatra.  Sinatra made his one and only appearance at the festival in 1965, arriving by helicopter and reserving 250 box seats for his entourage.


Entrances are far more subdued 5 these days, despite the hourly coming and going of musicians. More than 30 acts are scheduled for the weekend of August 12 and 13, including George Benson, Al Jarreau, Dr. John and The Lower 911, Chris Botti, The McCoy Tyner Septet and Arturo Sandoval, as well as the ageless Dave Brubeck, who travels far and wide to perform his jazz classic "Take Five."



n.衬里,衬料
  • The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
  • Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。
n.犯罪地点,审判地,管辖地,发生地点,集合地点
  • The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
  • The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。
n.棘手( delicacy的名词复数 );精致;精美的食物;周到
  • Its flesh has exceptional delicacies. 它的肉异常鲜美。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • After these delicacies, the trappers were ready for their feast. 在享用了这些美食之后,狩猎者开始其大餐。 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
学英语单词
a poon
A tent
absorption water
actuarial table
Alasin
alicycle
amidrazone
apogranite
attribution model
autocatalysts
avian-flu
bastard fount
Beaconsfield
bench-drill
boat bearer
bolillos
bresaolas
Bupleurum longicaule
cage hydraulic press
carbide insert bit
Catcher in the Rye
centimoes
channel decoder
comma construction
contact reliability inspection
cotton-enamel covered wire
course
Critesion
crystal tea
decontraction
demolition of property
Deuteronomic, Deuteronomical
deviation of borehole
DIIC
distance of relative movement
distesol
dividend payout ration
duquesnel
equivalent bar
error status register
family Rhinolophidae
gang seeder
general recursive predicate
geographic proximity
gridpoints
GVE
have a peep ab sb
have something on one's shoulders
hereditary predisposition
HF-24
high pressure turbine bypass
hobnail
icker
ignition residue
intermediate preference targets
irenina malloticola
Kannose-gawa
lameller tearing
leave one's card upon someone
left-click
level of organization
library member
man of quality
mangadom
mesomeric theory
miniaturizes
moneymaking
moral duty
moving speed of table
noise level
north land (severnaya zemlya)
Orroroo
outdoor motor
ovonic threshold switch
partial solid solution
partner's capiatl
perissus asperatus
personal computing conference
photoelectric photometer
pillar shaping machine
placentotrophy
Planchonella obovata
plex structure
primary safety valve for inner container
project production
rekles
sample pulse phase
Shentoo's line
sinaed
spring for air pump
stewed
suck-boy
takehome
thermal decomposition method
transmission standards
ultrasonic test method
UNRPR
UVPROM
uvular diastematia
walkback
weirty
workcentre