Last Thursday night-- after much celebration-- we were blessed with the opportunity to play with a "musical staircase" at a law office in New Brunswick, and Lynn pounded out an aerobically taxing and rather avant-garde version of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and I made this clever joke: "I'm going to be like John Coltrane and skip every other step," in reference to his use of the whole tone scale on his classic album "Giant Steps" but I had forgotten that there were no jazz-heads in this particular group of friends, and so the joke fell flat and had to be explained . . . which is a terribly annoying habit; the next time I'm about to make a joke about an obscure musical scale, I will consider my audience more carefully.
6 comments:
Maybe you should just tell funny jokes.
you should have made an oscar peterson joke - two birds, one very obscure stone.
zman's comment works for rob's comment and my sentence. well done.
here i am trying to help you with your personal quest, and that's the thanks i get? take off, hoser.
Oscar Peterson averaged a triple-double one season, right?
oscar peterson is canadian?
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