The Cynic's ABC

Spending Sunday in the office not catching up with the backload of work.  Came across The Cynic’s ABC penned by Ron Rubin and the late, lamented Campbell Burnap.  Here’s a selection.

Banjo  - The mother in law of the jazz family.

Busy – Having a much better technique than oneself.

Commercial – making more money than we are.

Diatonic – What Fat’s Waller should have put in his gin.

Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' - Stormy Weather (1943)

Jazz  - Originally a four letter word.  Still a four letter word.

Lively – Something you get asked to play just after you’ve played “Tiger Rag”.

Repercussions – What happens when you tell the drummer he’s racing.

Drummer de jour - Richard Pite

Residency – a bed-sitter where a musician waits for the phone to ring.

Zweiunddreissigstel – German for Demisemiquaver.  The shortest note with the longest name.

Louis Armstrong - 'Tiger Rag' (1932)