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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary
by
Rajan P. Parrikar
Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008
http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf
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2008/5/22 Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> That was an interesting piece from Mario......escapades et al!! Accomplished
> a ton of stuff long before I was born.
> The section on Louis Armstrong caught my eye and I quote from the article
> verbatim:
>
>> While we were making small talk with this musical legend, who
>> was sipping some adult beverage while he wiped the sweat off
>> his forehead, a nearby reporter asked him, "Mr. Armstrong,
>> can you explain jazz?" The answer was a classic, "Maan, if
>> you have to ask, you'll never know!"
>
> I flipped out my copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz" by Alan
> Axelrod Ph.D. (1999). The title to Chapter 1 is "If you have to ask, you'll
> never know". I will quote the first two paragraphs of this chapter verbatim
> :
>
> QTE
> They tell the story like this: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong had just finished a
> set in a Harlem club patronized, as these places were in 1920s and '30s, by
> well-heeled white nightclubbers. A soceity matron approached Satch and asked
> him to "define jazz."
>
> "Lady," he replied, mopping his brow with his trademark handkerchief, "if I
> have to tell you, you'll never know."
> End-QTE
>
> Pray tell us what is going on........is MG referring to meeting the legend
> in Bombay in 1964 or NewYork in the 1920s........MG appears to have got to
> Harlem long-long before I got there..........or is this another bout of
> "pulling wool over our eyes". Just asking........
>
> Hey.....Have you heard Jazzy Joe - our very own Goan sax virtuoso??
>
> - b
RESPONSE: When in doubt Google for an answer and then pass it off as
own ! Most likely a fraud perpetrated on Goanet.
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DEV BOREM KORUM.
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
