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...Bass for Pablo. The recipes range from serviceable to mouthwatering. They are, fortunately, not restricted to the elusive complexities of French cuisine, but make some gratifying forays into solid Viennese and Hungarian cooking. Their names alone are fascinating, e.g., Dublin Coffee James Joyce, Hot Toddy for Cold Night, Nameless Cookies, Very Good Chocolate Mousse, Tricolored Omelette, Chicken in Half Mourning, Scheherazade's Melon, Virgin Sauce...
...what gives the Cook Book its special charm is the stream of Alice's prattle, in which the recipes appear like floating islands, in no particular order. Her own recipe for striped bass, for instance, was worked out when she made lunch for Artist Pablo Picasso. He "exclaimed at its beauty" and modestly protested that it should have been created in honor of Matisse instead. In Palma de Mallorca, a French cook almost started a riot in the market place by showing Alice how to smother pigeons (the cook said it made them fuller and tastier). The information came...
...passage into a quiet bay, little waves lapped with a feathery sound on a soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with the gorgeous sound of the Queen Mary's deep bass whistle, and ending with the horrid harrumph of the West Quoddy Head horn...
...showed little affinity for the performance of Baroque music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 fared somewhat better than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
...months of the year, living in the jazzman's restless world of all-night coach rides, smoky nightclubs and hamburger joints at dawn. Nowadays, the quartet travels in better style than in the days when it chugged cross-country in Dave's old car, with the string bass tied to the ceiling. But Brubeck still retains most of his frugal habits: he travels with one suit (two pairs of pants) that rarely gets a pressing, and usually washes his own nylon shirts in the bathroom. His wife used to go on tour with him, but he was nervous...