Duke Ellington, "Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band" (RCA, 2003; tracks recorded 1940-42).
But much of "Mood Indigo" was Barney Bigard's, while "Never No Lament" (which became the hit "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"), "I'm Beginning to See the Light," and "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" began as Johnny Hodges riffs and then became songs.
Their parties lit up the best weekends, with Walker at the piano — at night in their cantilevered living room it seemed suspended amid the trees — or, later on, playing his trombone in soft accompaniment with Tricky Sam Nanton and Lawrence Brown on the 78 of "Never No Lament," while we danced.
Anna is Italian by birth and has never, Ellis laments, completely mastered American idioms: "I have to keep the doctors in line," Anna says.
It aims to invest in promising intellectual property, with the idea of creating spin-out companies or encouraging consolidation".They never merge," laments a METI official, who fears more companies will go the way of Nikon and Canon in steppers.
In the years that followed he never complained, lamented or wished ill against anyone.
"Never mind the lament for the high street butcher, cheesemonger, baker, ironmonger.
Sonya Yoncheva, as the doomed Queen of Carthage, effectively mixed plaintive and passionate accents, although her final Lament never quite tore the heart in two.
Others say the West evokes a frontier image, or that the South tends to produce women who are tough but charming (Ann Richards, say, who some lament never ran).
Those days, as Lazar never ceases to lament, are long gone, and now he has to deal with book editors and movie executives who report to committees, bid cautiously, and never send anything to celebrate a deal.
