lorna and goan music
Chris & Lorna - Love and Longing in Mumbai's Jazz Age by Naresh Fernandes - July 2003 When jazz swung into the subcontinent, Goans seized it as the song of their souls. "Jazz gave us freedom of expression," explains Frank Fernand, who played in the Teddy Weatherford band at the Taj. "You played jazz the way you feel morning you play differently, evening you play differently." New tunes came to India as sheet music, but that sometimes wasn't much help even to accomplished readers: jazz contained such unconventional instructions as glissando, mute and attack. "But when we heard the records, we knew how to play the notes," Frank says. For a Goan jazzman, the greatest accolade was to be told that he "played like a negro". No one seems to have received more praise on this account than Chic Chocolate, who occasionally led a two-trumpet barrage at the Green's Hotel with Chris Perry. Chic whose name Goans pronounced as if they were talkin