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It was a pop song recorded by Teresa Brewer. I was scared to death. But I did it beautifully, so they say. When she was in Los Angeles, Sandy was never far from music. I remember when people would come from all over Los Angeles to go to the clubs in the Central Avenue area. They would dress up in shiny dresses, pearls and furs. Of course when I got old enough to go to Central Avenue all those jazz clubs were gone. I was born too late for those glorious, glamorous times. At least, it seemed glamorous to me. My eyes were full of stars.
Those images of Central Avenue are much more than half a world away from many. Speaking for myself, I was born and raised in a city in the North of England where there were no jazz clubs and only rarely did a jazz artist make a concert appearance at the stately and quite unsuitable City Hall. Gradually, as the years went by, jazz was heard; the trad jazz boom of the s at last giving pub landlords something to do with those cavernous first-floor rooms that had lain empty and echoing for decades. If her eyes were full of stars, then the same might be said of my head.
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Hopefully, the make-believe will stay in my head among the images of reported but unrecorded moments of magic: Joe Turner singing behind the bar of the Reno Club; Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton playing a minute duet on trumpet and drums in a Los Angeles nightspot; Dizzy Gillespie happily sitting in and playing fourth! All these are real events but the aural and visual images they evoke are entirely imaginary, and yet are all so real to me.
This same imagination drew me by way of jazz to other aspects of American culture. Among the results of this is my stage play, The Colors Of Your Life , which centers upon the mistreatment of black women in the USA from slavery through to the present day. Also, three of my recent crime novels, Harlem Nocturne , Harlem Madness , and Harlem Blues , are set respectively in , and Although fiction, these tales touch upon real issues of those times, including the rise of fascism, the Harlem riots, and the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
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I am immeasurably grateful that jazz and my perhaps overly active imagination led me into these other worlds. No bad thing; because imagination is what someone in my trade needs. Just as it is needed in the much richer and more important work of the jazz giants we all admire. Perhaps, once in a while, imagination overflows a little beyond acceptable boundaries, but I certainly hope that such lapses can be forgiven, if only because in so doing I can sneakily forgive myself when I do it.
After all, without imagination, the world can be a very dull place. The origins of big band jazz can be traced back to the s, through the s and early 40s, when it was the pop music of the day complete with superstars , into the much lower profile experimentation of the s and 70s, and on to the present day where avant-garde improvised music rubs shoulders usually if not always congenially with elements that would be instantly recognized by past masters of big band jazz. Wholly compatible is the writing of Mica Bethea, an exceptionally gifted arranger who presents big band music that is very much of today, yet is filled with echoes of the best of the past.
The two discs each contain eight tracks and as the album title indicates, the music is performed in two settings, one in the studio, the other a live date, both at the University of North Florida. The duplicated titles provide an opportunity to hear differences in interpretation that are prompted in part by the setting. On the studio CD, I could control the environment and get exactly the sounds I wanted. But on the live performance, you can hear that the musicians are more relaxed and stretch out more. In , when he was still a music student, he was involved in a major road traffic incident that left him a quadriplegic.
No longer able to play any instrument he resumed his studies, now concentrating on arranging and composing. Even this is fraught with difficulties — because he cannot write by hand, he has to use a computer. That Mica Bethea has faced up to these challenges and overcome them is for very nearly all of us an unimaginable achievement; that the music he generates is so breathtaking, profound and joyous is an inspiration.
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For more on Mica Bethea including booking contact Mouthpiece Music. All albums are at Amazon. Fans of Swing Era music believe it to be as alive today as it was when it first burst upon the popular music scene, and there are many musicians around who are happy to prove them right.
However you look at it, eight decades is a long time. His predecessors, Stan King and Sammy Weiss, were skilful dance band drummers and on earlier recordings do everything right. But on later dates Krupa adds that indefinable something that inspired the rest of the band, which in turn electrified audiences and helped make the band the popular powerhouse it was to become. On 16 January the band appeared at Carnegie Hall, an occasion recorded on a single overhead microphone but not released until the early s, by which time LPs had arrived.
This album has never been out of circulation and as the years have passed reissues have benefited enormously from improvements to the sound quality. Not at all surprising is the fact that music from the Swing Era turns up often in films and on television, in dramas and documentaries. So has this music of a bygone age been forgotten?
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Indeed, in some quarters it is just as alive now as it was then. The long ago departure of jazz from the dance floor and in to the concert hall has meant that one of the key qualities of swing style has been sometimes overlooked. This is the fact that most of the music was composed, arranged and played for dancing. Among the gatherings for fans of dance of this kind is Lindy Focus in Asheville, North Carolina, where musicians and dancers and teachers assemble for a lively festival.
On this highly entertaining album, Michael Gamble draws upon music linked to several key names from the Swing Era. Throughout, there are fine solos from both Keenan and Paul and also by other members of the collective. Everyone with a liking for the swinging music that captivated audiences way back when — and especially those who like to dance — will enjoy this album.
This album is available at the usual outlets, including Amazon. Elsewhere on this site there is more on Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa — just follow the links. Over the years there have been several books on Benny Goodman, notably D.
My own book on Goodman is very brief — it was part of a series of monographs on key jazz figures — and it is long out of print although still around on the Internet for pennies. I mention it only because it is especially dear to me as it is the only book of mine to be translated into Japanese. I confess I skipped the proofreading stage. I have long taken an interest in jazz drumming, an interest that over the years has led me to write articles for magazines and on-line sites on several drummers.
Also, in , my book, Gene Krupa: His Life and Times , was published and although now out of print this is available to eager searchers among the second-hand stacks at Amazon. Regrettably, over the years it was only rarely that I became aware of women drummers in jazz. These musicians and a few others apart, this was pretty much the sum of my knowledge. Desperately seeking out key words in order to flame the sometimes ridiculous assertions and assumptions.
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Jonah and the Whale Intestines 10 June , As with all animals digestion in fish involves the breakdown of eaten food into its smaller component parts, amino acids, vitamins, fatty acids etc. The breaking apart or breaking down of the eaten material is called anabolism, the building up of new material is called catabolism and these two together make up the whole of metabolism.
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Grammatically it follows from this that the respective adjectives are anabolic, catabolic and metabolic. When compared to humans, the digestive system in fish is relatively simple. There will of course be variations that are species-dependent. Some species of fish have teeth.
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The teeth in fish are generally adapted for performing special functions. Predatory Catfish will for instance have small sharp pointed teeth, while the Pacu fish have teeth adapted to crushing fruits and nuts. The Big fish that swallowed Jonah is often said to be a whale, however the Bible does not make it clear at all. It was a big fish. A fish could be large enough to swallow a human.
After some rudimentary searching and research on the web we can illiminate most species of fish because they rarely exceed 2m. In order for them to swallow a man whole they would need to be all stomach and we know this is not the way fish work. The largest fish known to man is the whale shark and that could probably fit a man in it's stomach, Also the basking shark has the right kind of dimensions but both of these beasts eat plankton and small fish. Could they swallow a human whole? According to the Smithsonian the Whale sharks Oesophagus is only inches across so this is wholly unlikely.
In experiments with whale sharks rice was thrown into their mouths and was immediately spat out and the same for some seaweed. We can assume that a human would be spat out too as the whale shark would know it cannot swallow it. There have been reports of Great White Sharks and Groupers large enough to swallow a man. It is also posited that a sperm whale could swallow a man. So far the tale of Jonah has a few creatures large enough to ingest a full sized man.
But let's find out what would happen to a man swallowed by one of these beasts. The Sperm Whale like a Cow has four stomachs. That is a lot of digestive juices to survive, but the biggest problem with this scenario is the lack of oxygen in a sperm whales digestive tract. During a fishing competition in Australia, a Great White swallowed whole, a 2. THis proves that a man could be swallowed whole as well. Most sharks swallow their food whole or bite it into relatively large pieces. Sharks have U-shaped stomachs that use very strong acids and enzymes to dissolve most of what is eaten.
The stomach produces an easily absorbed, soupy mush.