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Titolo: Reet, petite and gone

Come tradurreste questo titolo di una canzone, nonché titolo di un
film?
Il testo della canzone si trova qui
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/r/reetpetiteandgone.shtml

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Come tradurreste questo titolo di una canzone, nonch� titolo di un
film?
Il testo della canzone si trova qui
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/r/reetpetiteandgone.shtml
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"Reet" is simply "right" in Jazz jargon from the 1930s and 1940s.
See also Cab Calloway's "Are You All Reet".
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/c/cab-calloway/are/
Joe from Massachusetts 

 See also Cab Calloway's "Are You All Reet".
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/c/cab-calloway/are/
Grazie Jo, però continuo a non essere sicuro sul senso di quel titolo.
Equivale a dire "She's all right, she's small and she's gone away" ?

 Grazie Jo,
"Joe", pardon! :)
"Jo" sarebbe una donna.

 Reet".
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/c/cab-calloway/are/
Grazie Jo, per� continuo a non essere sicuro sul senso di quel titolo.
Equivale a dire "She's all right, she's small and she's gone away" ?
In Jazz jargon, "gone" meaning "the best", etc. is usually preceded by 
"real", but here "real" doesn't fit the rhyme, so it is left out.
�Gone --- Yet another Jazz superlative.
Lester is a real "gone" cat.�
 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/speak.htm
Joe from Massachusetts 

 "Jo" sarebbe una donna.
Non ne sono sicuro da quando ho visto uomini e donne che si chiamano 
Ashley, Frances, Alison, Quinn.
-- 
Pâs gàr ho aitôn lambánei, kaì ho zetôn heurískei, kaì tô kroúonti 
anoigésetai
(Euaggélion katà Loûkan 11,10)

 chiamano Ashley, Frances, Alison, Quinn.
 
Marion, Dana...
-- 
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a
joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
    -- Mark Twain

  
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/speak.htm
Dove peraltro spiega:
Cats --- Folks who play jazz music.
One more expression (not in the list) was "Killer diller", meaning
"cool", or a really swell musician, correct me if I'm mistaken.
It is the title of a 1948 motion picture featuring Nat King Cole and
some other really hip performers.

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I don't think "killer diller" originated among Jazz musicians. It is just 
another example of a rhyming compound.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/killer-diller?r=66
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/rhyming_compounds00.html
Much Jazz jargon can only be found in the titles or in the words of the 
songs of the Jazz artists of the 1930s and 1940s.
It might be of interest to Harry Potter fans that the word "muggles" was 
used by Jazz musicians to refer to marijuana.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muggles
Here is an instrumental recording by Louis Armstrong called "Muggles".. I 
don't think he read "Harry Potter".
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramc/OKe402200-B.ram
Joe from Massachusetts


"Cool cat" meaning a "cool musician", originated among Jazz musicians, but 
cat quickly came to be used to refer to men in general. I might think you 
were a "cool cat" if I met you.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/cat
"Hep cat" originated with Jazz musicians, and later "hep" was replaced by 
"hip".
Here is a Cab Calloway song called "Hep Cat's Love Song".
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramc/OKE29866.ram
Another interesting use of "cat" which is common only in the black 
community. is the use of "gray cat" to refer to any white man, since "white" 
people are not truly "white".
http://tinyurl.com/ye9f9l8
Joe from Massachusetts

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Another example of black slang which is unknown to most outside the black 
community is the word "ofay" to refer to any white person (not just a white 
male).
http://tinyurl.com/yc4efal
Joe from Massachusetts