[Dixielandjazz] Drinks & music

[Jim Kashishian]

I wrote: 
>No brandy in that glass...only the Anis.  

I forgot to write that there IS a drink with brandy & anis mixed together.
It is half & half & is called a Sol y Sombra (Sun & Shade) for the two
colors of the liquids.  When I first came to Spain, you could see
construction workers whopping a glass of that back at outdoor bars before
going off to work....in one toss of the head!   :>

There MUST be a song about that sort of thing.....

I did a radio jingle once for a brand of Anis (Anis del Mono) to the melody
of The Saints.  It was terrible words, but it was what the advertising
agency wanted!  I sang it, the band played.
I don't care for that brand, preferring Chinchon (a brand from a town near
Madrid called Chinchon.  Cantiflas landed his balloon in the bullring (the
square in the center of town) in Chinchon in the movie "Around the World In
80 Days".  I played a bullfight there in the 60's (not jazz, but Pasadobles.

Here's a really nice Pasadoble:  Sighs of Spain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVNrdivax0&feature=related albeit with full
orchestra.

Jim