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...born to play jazz. Unlike a guitar, a banjo cannot sustain a note for very long. ("Pop, ping, and then it's gone," Fleck says.) Yet on his ballad Sunset Road, Fleck creates an illusion of satiny, legato plangency. If you want one word for the album, call it mellow. Says Tony Trischka, his former teacher: "Bela Fleck is making the banjo safe for mass consumption...
...Class of 1965 is still liberal, and 25 years after graduation has settled into a comfortable, mellow, healthy life to gain pleasure from family and from quiet pursuits, according to a poll of 778 members of the class conducted by the Harvard Alumni Association...
Some of their best work was done with one another, especially classic recordings such as "I Must Have That Man" and "A Fine Romance" from 1937, as well as "Fine and Mellow", the blues tune they played together during a reunion twenty years later on the 1957 CBS-TV special, "The Sound of Jazz...
Holiday co-wrote only three songs in her career, "Billie's Blues", "Fine and Mellow", and the now-perennial favorite "God Bless The Child", all inspired by personal experience. In her autobiography Lady Day knowingly said, "With me, it's got nothing to do with working or arranging or rehearsing. Give me a song I can feel, and it's never work...
Contrary to popular opinion, not all animals become angry and agitated when they see red. Bulls may stomp and snort at the sight of a toreador's cape, but chickens become positively mellow when they see the world through rose-tinted glasses. Or contact lenses...