PROLOGUE: The First Movement プロローグ 第一楽章： Phone conversation is one thing; a letter lasts. I love the intimacy of letters, the warm communication that flows between two people who take the time to write. It reminds me of dialogue …

ウィントン・マルサリス著「To a Young Jazz Musician」を英日対訳（文法解説付）で読んでゆきます（全12回）。 2003年発行のこの名著は、41歳のウィントンが、19歳の弟子「アンソニー」に対し、「コンサートツアーの合間を縫って送った10通の手紙」という仮…

chapter 14 (pp229-240) WHEN I GOT ON THE TRAIN I found an empty seat next to a lady and her three children, and she was really sticking. What I mean by "sticking" is that she had a big basket of good old southern fried chicken which she ha…

chapter 13 (pp211-228) WHEN THE SEASON ENDED at Davenport, Iowa, Captain Joe Streckfus gave each one of us his bonus, which consisted of all the five dollars kept out of our pay each week during the whole season. That was a nice taste of m…

chapter 12 (pp192-210) AS THE DAYS ROLLED ON I commenced getting hep to the jive. I learned a good deal about life and people as I shot dice with the waiters, the deck hands, the musicians and anybody else who gambled. Sometimes after we l…

chapter 11 (pp181-191) BY THIS TIME I was beginning to get very popular round that good old town of mine. I had many offers to leave Kid Dry's band, but for some time none of them tempted me. One day a redheaded band leader named Fate Mara…

chapter 10 (pp150-180) THE BRICK HOUSE, in Gretna, Louisiana . . . In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honkytonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and t…

chapter 9 (pp136-149) ALONG ABOUT THE middle of the summer of 1918 Joe Oliver got an offer from Chicago to go there to play for Mrs. Major, who owned the Lincoln Gardens. He took Jimmie Noone with him to play the clarinet. 1918年夏の最中、…

chapter 8 (pp124-135) EARLY IN 1918 the flu began to let up, and the United States started to get after the Kaiser and his boys in fine fashion. The last draft call was for men between eighteen and forty-five, so I went down to the draft b…