时间:2019-01-10 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(六月)


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
4'-Methoxychalcone
antipathizing
apparent particle size
araneologist
arithmetic shift combined
Arteria prepancreatica
axle pinion
belt driving over
bet-the-companies
bockman
bridle
carevisions
chemiluminescent ozone analyzer
cochlear nerve lesion
consultative machinery
cooling flow galaxy
counter-evidences
crossed module
dark brown sugar
derived key word
dictamnin
double lift cam
eigenstructures
elliptic coiling
ercoes
ester wax
ethyleneglycol monobutylether
exclusive rithts
father rule
floating-point subtract
flower beds
fund-managements
genus Albizia
genus Chloris
geolocators
girth rail
glass-smooth
glycogenous
hyrne
i/o rundown
intermediate metabolites
irately
isodextropimarinol
jawan
kapa
labefaction
labo(u)r rate variance
Ljungstrom regenerative air heater
lodine consumption
m'm
manufacturers wire
maximum shaft power
mcteer
melt indexer
memory skewing scheme
moloka'i
monacantha
mud column
multiparameter
multiple cementoma
mutiple-track range
nudge one's way
odd-numbered channel
overexposur
phase transition of vacuum
Phx.
pillau
Pilostemon
pkwy.
post-moshing syndrome
potato peeling machine
pramiracetam
precisest
private lender
re-cutting
rejuvenized
res nullius
reur
rigid penstock
salicet
Sarata
Scbweinfurt green
secret language telegram
shortfetched
Shrapnell
Signal-to-Noise
single spark plug ignition
speaking position
spiny softshells
spoonwood
stevely
superior characters
synchronous electric sampler
tell fortune
tilt ducted propeller
Tsugol
unit loading
untrespassing
versine shock pulse
weirdoes
white silky paper
wogan