Jan,
OMIGAWD THAT IS FUNNY!
Thank you so much for this post!
Lama
Jan, the heretic, the blasphemer, said,
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:41:28 -0800
From: jan gyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fwd: Jazz Criticism
>> Presenting Ken Burns' 144-hour Extremely Important Documentary, Jazz.
>>
>> Fade up on a grainy old photograph of a man in a three-piece suit,
>> holding a cornet. Or a bicycle horn, it's hard to tell.
>>
>> Narrator: Skunkbucket LeFunke was born in 1876 and died in 1901. No
>> one who heard him is alive today. The grandchildren of the people who
>> heard him are not alive today. The great-grandchildren of the people
>> who heard him are not alive today. He was never recorded.
>>
>> Wynton Marsalis: I'll tell you what Skunkbucket LeFunke sounded like.
>> He had this big rippling sound, and he always phrased off the beat,
>> and he slurred his notes. And when the Creole bands were still playing
>> De-bah-de-bah-ta-da-tah, he was already playing
>> Bo-dap-da-lete-do-do-do-bah! He was just like gumbo, ahead of his
>> time.]]
