Herby always hummed as he worked in the yard, sometimes one of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos–say, #6 in B flat–or Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”, or the Rolling Stones’ “Harlem Shuffle”. For some reason, he just couldn’t get Jim Morrison and the Doors’ “Come On Baby, Light My Fire” out of his head tonight . . .
Al Gore, while touring China with his band The AlGoreRhythms, had played at a prestigious Chinese center of learning and had been asked to speak about how he had invented music several years before inventing the Internet. When several western reporters asked if maybe Bach, Tchaikovsky, Elvis, Al Jolson or various angelic choirs hadn’t maybe preceded him by a little, his response was that those allegations were simply bigoted, uninformed right wing Tea Party propaganda from Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh . . .
Huey and Dwayne had to admit it, their buddy Louis (center) was one heck of a trumpet player, Jazz, blues, and classical; in fact he was the one that had gotten them the summer gig in the trumpet section with the Canadian Brass doing a traveling J. S. Bach recital featuring Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. But they still weren’t going to call him Satchmo when the chicks were around.. . . . David, Sf.G.
While on a short break, the director of the Bach chamber music quartet heard one of the violin players do a quick version of the old Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli tune, “Minor Swing,” and asked, “What IS that?” Her answer was “jus’ fiddlin’ around”. . . . . David, Sf.G.
