dialogue 1
Jingjing: Marko, I notice you put some --------------.
Mark: ----------------does that, don't they?
Jingjing: Idon't. I think people should -----------. Anyway, it---------- toclick on a post and then only get to hear -------------.
Mark: Well,they have to---------. Let's hope some of the artists -------------too,right? Anyway, I used two different ------------------ I could find.
Jingjing: Yeah, I noticed that. I also noticed you're calling those song---------------. What are those, -----------?
Mark: Youshould know that. Yo---------------- for a long time.
Jingjing: Sure. I'm just---------- to see if you know.
Mark: Alright, then. A jazz standard is a song that has -------------- ofthe classic jazz ------------, like Cole Porter, and has now been-------------artists.
Jingjing: Isaw on your----------you posted ----------------------------
Mark: Yeah,I------------ performances of Nature Boy I --------.
Jingjing: Iknow----- those artists (Miles Davis and Stan Getz) are ----------- in jazz. What about the-------------, though?
Mark: DonMcLean is a----------. He did---------vocal recording, which waspretty ---------. One of the other singers, Leonard Nimoy, is actually ------------------. Early in his -------, he recorded a few-----------------.
Jingjing: Hehas an interesting voice.
Mark: Yeah,it's pr-------------ting.
Jingjing: Who wrote ------------------Boy?
Mark NatKing Cole was ----------, in 1948.
Jingjing: Wow, that's------------song!
dialogue 2
Jingjing: Ifound out ------------about jazz standards since we last talked.
Mark: --------------,Jingjing!
Jingjing: OK, so -----standards were written or -------------- by jazz musicians. Some were from -------- and other productions. Others were very -----------,---------when artists started to----------music.
Mark: Thatpretty much------------. Yeah, I think of a jazz standard as a song thathas been done by so many--------- that it doesn't seem to-----------. Itsounds good as jazz, but is great to hear done by----------------.
Jingjing: Speaking of-----------, I like that ---------of How Insensitive by IggyPop that you------------------.
Mark: Metoo. -------------------------------------------------. One of the other------------ofthat------- song, performed by Sting, I couldn't find ----------------- yearsago.
Jingjing: That one's -------------too. I love Sting's ---------------.
Mark: ----------doI. I like how he didn't--------------- too much. It's like the------------- just with Sting doing -------------------.
Jingjing: Are you going to pos------------------?
Mark: ThoseI posted were the-----------of each song. I'd like to put up my favorite -----------called You Don't Know ------------------. There are five I like of that.
Jingjing: That's a-----------------for a song. Any others?
Mark: Youwant a----------? Try this one: I Wish I Knew How It---------------------------Free.
Jingjing: Woah! Is that------------jazz standard?
Mark: I'd-----------—thoughit's hard to----------- what exactly is a jazz standard and what isn't.
Jingjing: That's what's-------- about it, I guess, ----------------------------
Mark: That's------------ it well, Jingjing. Here, you want to listen to--------------these and tell me-----------you like best?
Jingjing: Send me the-------. I'll----------- them later.
new words andphrases
from dialogue 1
get(someone's)goat(idiom)
vocal recording:
captivating:
from dialogue 2
stumbled on(something):
jazz(something)up:
nail(something)down (or) nail down(something):