Klarinet Archive - Posting 000773.txt from 2003/10

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] "A little traveling music, Ray...."
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:22:58 -0500

Today I almost discovered a "not while you're driving" CD the hard way.

The combination of sax+trombone (Dave Holland Quintet) sounded exactly
like cars honking when they interrupted Holland's bass solos at
unexpected moments. The first time I heard this, I looked around to
see who was honking at me (four speakers in my van), and another car
jumped out in front of me in the rain, despite her having a stop sign
while I didn't. Fortunately I looked back in time to see her and to
jam on the brakes.

It was too easy to confuse honking cars with the music, and I had to
substitute a Cirque du Soleil CD for the remainder of the afternoon.
Holland's music is jittery even under the best of circumstances, which
driving in the rain is certainly not.

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