Jazz!
Nigel Wrench writes: "This is Sibongile Khumalo, appearing the London Jazz Festival on Friday and on PM this evening.
Trained in opera in South Africa during the apartheid years, she turned to jazz because opera was generally only performed at state-run theatres, where a black woman in a leading opera part was unthinkable.
I snapped these pictures while she rehearsed with a band including Jack de Johnette, pictured here, widely thought to be one of the world's leading jazz drummers."
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When did Colin Powell take up drumming?
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QL (1) you beat me to it - dead ringer for Colin Powell.
I didn't really believe in doppelgangers, but have just been reading Clarissa Dickson Wright's autobigraphy. In the days when she was a barrister she had to defend a man who waking from sleep on a train was accused of sexual assault on the woman sitting opposite. His defence was that he thought she was his wife and he was so pleased to see her. The wife was produced in court and they were apparently like identical twins - case dismissed.
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Jack de Johnette is not 'widely thought to be one of the world's leading jazz drummers'. He is one of the world's leading drummers.
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They all look the same to me!
;-)
ed
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Yay! Ed! Good to see you, pal!
How are you? Got over the celebrations for Obama's victory yet?
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Fabulous voice - singing and speaking. Is it true that viola players are the "drummers" in the classical world?
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Well hello there Ed I. Long time no see...How the devil are you, old boy?
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Screamingmuldoon (6)
Yes, indeed, viola players go through the same humiliations as drummers, so my brother tells me:
Q. What is the best sound you can make with a viola?
A. Splash!
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