Letters from the Dollar Pianist: Ok!!! is it Okra or Lady's Finger?

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Ok!!! is it Okra or Lady's Finger?

This is not the biggest question, but I keep asking who started calling it Ladies Finger, when the whole world calling it Okra!!!

My elementary school taught me to call it "Lady's Finger"

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Letters from who?

Making color stories on wall is so fun. but when I grew up I was given the editor-job of my school & later college mags, then editor of the music journal "McArn Times", then columnist for "Sangamam", written few blogs on music, jazz, spirituality and about my studio. But had a hollow feeling that I don’t write things I wanted to, Thus this blog!!

Manifestating my views and explorations of the world around me, in the eyes of art, multimedia and music that I always
loved to do. I named it "letters", since the notion of letters is fading, so I wanted to retain some memoirs of the letter writing days.

JAZZ BITES

"It's Only a Paper Moon"

The title track, "It’s Only a Paper Moon", begins with Dave Brubeck's piano, backed by the drummer's fast but light rhythm and the bassist's syncopated plucking. About forty seconds into the track the piano switches to stride style, and at 0:52 the saxophone enters on the melody as Dave Brubeck comps. At 2:38 Dave Brubeck begins his pianosolo using block chords. His solo continues until 3:31 when bass player Chris Brubeck, now on bass trombone, takes over. His improvisation dips into the lowest registers, giving the piece a fuller and rougher tone. His solo ends the piece with a repeat of the chorus