January 24, 2014
Do you know “scat” music’s tipping point—that moment just before it started spreading like wildfire?
The short version is that, though artists had been experimenting for years with the form, scat’s explosion in popularity followed the release of Louis Armstrong’s Heebie Jeebies. In the book Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words, he explained:
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January 16, 2014
“To an engineer, fan belts exist between the crankshaft and the water pump. To a physicist, fan belts exist, briefly, in the intervals between stars.”
—George Dyson
That’s beautiful, I thought, after reading the quote above. But . . . What’s it really mean?
Some background:
This quote appears at the end of the following story, in the acknowledgements [...]
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