When My Fiddle's In The Case.When My Fiddle's In The Case Johnny Frigo Johnny Frigo (December 27, 1916 – July 4, 2007) was an American jazz violinist and bassist. Early Life and Career Frigo was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied violin for only 3 years beginning at age 7. Lost Coast Press 155 Cypress Street, Fort Bragg Fort Bragg, U.S. army base, 11,136 acres (4,507 hectares), E N.C., N of Fayetteville; est. 1918. Originally an artillery post, it is now the principal U.S. army airborne-training center and the site of the Special Warfare School. , CA 95437 1882897854, $35.00 www.cypresspress.com www.johnnyfrigo.com 1-800-773-7782 "When My Fiddle's In The Case: The Poetry And Paintings of Jazz Violinist Johnny Frigo" is a compendium of verse and artwork by a master musician and a gifted poet. Johnny Frigo (now 85 years old) has played with the Jimmy Dorsey James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter and big band leader. Jimmy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of a music teacher and older brother of Tommy Dorsey who also became a Band in the 1940s, and made a career of playing the bass in Chicago's commercial/studio jazz scene. He performed with excellent at the Umbria Jazz in 2002 and 'brought the house down' with his own 1946 classic composition 'Detour Ahead'. Multitalented, Frigo is an accomplished jazz violinist and a gifted painter. "When My Fiddle's In The Case" combines Frigo's impressive paintings with his equally impressive poetry to create a collection of word and image that undeniably documents an impressive and enduring talent. 'The Inlet': The inlet wore the stratus cloud/Like a gossamer silken gown,/When the sudden dip of/Oar disrobe it nude.//Then for a while it shimmered/In flashing sequin se·quin n. 1. A small shiny ornamental disk, often sewn on cloth; a spangle. 2. A gold coin of the Venetian Republic. Also called zecchino. tr.v. sparks/But soon relaxed and donned again/The Gown the rapist skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data . |
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