Auteur/autrice : John

A couple of jigs got on the bus with a doghouse. “You know Larry Brown?” said one of them. “Yeah,” said the other, “he plays a gang o’horn.” One way to catch the spirit of jazz music is to know its slang. The cryptic paragraph above may be translated as follows: two Negroes got on the bus with a bass viol; when asked if he knew Lawrence Brown, one of them said he did, and that Mr. Brown was a fine trombone player. Continuing in the language of jazz, it may be explained that Lawrence Brown is a hot trombonist…