去年好像年底时候James Brown辞世了，我之前虽然知道他很有名，但对他的音乐比较模糊，大略听过几首没太注意。后来专门搜来其代表作，仔细听了几遍，才拍案叫绝！真有点相见恨晚的感觉，唉，难怪说失去的才珍贵！可能大多数朋友乍一听和我刚开始一样，觉得没什么新奇。但反复听四五遍乃至十几遍之后，我开始品出滋

如何评价Louis Armstrong在爵士音乐中的重要性都不为过，相当于古典音乐的巴赫、摇滚音乐的猫王，是音乐史中最有影响的音乐家之一。“What A Wonderful World”是他最为著名的作品，被无数后来的音乐家翻唱过，大概大家还记得立邦漆的广告吧，意境美好，背景音乐就是这首What A Wonderful World。

Louis Armstrong的小号，可能是全世界最快乐的

这是除了昨日重现外我最喜欢的卡朋特的歌，是电影《情人》的插曲。曲调婉转幽远，Karen的声音优美而又似乎捉摸不定，整首歌令人迷惑的氛围非常符合它的名字－－假面舞会，歌词也有深意。

Are we really happy with this lonely game we play,
Looking for the right words to say?
Searching but not finding -- understanding anyway,
We're lost in this masquerade.

Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start.
We try to talk it over, but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play.

Thoughts of leaving disappear each time I see your eyes,
And no matter how hard I try
To understand the reason why we carry on this way
We're lost in this masquerade.

We try to talk it over, but the words got in the way
We're lost inside thi