VOA标准英语2010年-Catherine Russell Releases Blues Influ
时间：2019-02-06 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(六)月
Vocalist Catherine Russell is always searching for that next great melody. She's found more than a dozen of them to sing on her latest album, Inside This Heart Of Mine.
Catherine Russell is a perfectionist when it comes to choosing her material. Her first rule is it has to swing, as heard on her interpretation 1 of Ray Gilbert's "All The Cats Join In."
Catherine's love for the stage began at home. She says her parents, noted 2 jazz composer Luis Russell and singer and bass 4 player Carline Ray, introduced her to music and dance without any pressure of following in their footsteps.
"They didn't want to be 'stage parents', so they went with what I wanted to do more than [what they wanted me to do]," she says. "I had a mean piano teacher when I was little so they didn't make me study with her. My mother was playing for dance classes at Katherine Dunham's dance studio, and then I actually got the opportunity to study dance, and join her company as a result of that. So, it happened organically [naturally] rather than people forcing me to be on stage."
Catherine launched her career as a backup singer for Jackson Browne, Steely Dan, Paul Simon and others. Since the release of her first solo album in 2006, Catherine has carefully chosen songs with a personal connection.
"I like so many different kinds of music," she says, "and I've been influenced by so many different kinds of music that I do a lot of research; because doing this project has really encouraged me to listen to a lot of different things all the time, and really find songs that I like. The process is if I like a melody, the story of the lyric 5, and the harmonic structure of a tune 6, then that makes me want to learn it, and sing it and research it. So, that's pretty much how I find everything."
Among Catherine Russell's diverse collection of vintage jazz and swing is a tune titled "Spoonful" by legendary 7 Chicago bluesman Willie Dixon. Catherine says all of her songs have some element of blues 8 in them.
"It seems to me that blues is a way of working out how you feel. So, blues has always been very personal for me because it really is a process of how we explore our feelings and feel better about ourselves in the mist of that sadness. That's what it kind of means to me," she says. "[In the] history of the blues, people were just making themselves feel better in adverse 9 circumstances."
Also featured on Catherine's new CD are works by Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Lillian Hardin Armstrong, and Catherine's father Luis, as well as the Tin Pan Alley 10 classic by Harold Arlen and Ted 3 Koehler, "As Long As I Live."
- His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
- Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
- She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
- He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
- The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
- This is a good example of Shelley's lyric poetry.这首诗是雪莱抒情诗的范例。
- His earlier work announced a lyric talent of the first order.他的早期作品显露了一流的抒情才华。
- He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
- The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
- Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
- Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。
- She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
- He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。
- He is adverse to going abroad.他反对出国。
- The improper use of medicine could lead to severe adverse reactions.用药不当会产生严重的不良反应。