Sentences with phrase «american jazz greats»
The Jazz Age Comes Alive in July at Windsor Court Hotel June 20, 2017 The Windsor Court Hotel is excited to again participate in Tales of the Cocktail by hosting the annual weekend of Prohibition Tea, as well as a Spirited Dinner, in partnership with William Grant & Sons, devoted to American jazz greats.
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But, he writes, «an even greater tragedy has befallen Afro - American music: it is the fact that while the mass of Afro - American music lovers have embraced the misogynistic, self - loathing noise of «gangsta» rap now sponsored mainly by Euro - American companies — they have largely abandoned the authentic music of the blues and jazz.»
She has won Jeff Awards for her portrayals of Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and the title character in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's «Caroline, or Change,» and she rings in the New Year at Northlight with a new lineup of songs celebrating the greatest female vocalists in American pop and jazz history.
After the opening segment on Wray, the film traces a lineage of pre-rock trailblazers, starting with the Choctaw / African - American blues guitarist Charley Patton and pre-war jazz vocalist Mildred Bailey — «She was one of the great improvisers of jazz,» says Tony Bennett — from the Coeur d'Alene tribe.
But does all the referencing and homage — and not just to Demy, but also to Golden Age Tinseltown productions like An American in Paris, jazz greats like Miles Davis, and even (in the film's funniest scene) the English new - wave band A Flock of Seagulls — add up to much of anything original?
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical, Jazz Age novel about the idealist James Gatsby — and the nature of the American Dream.
Historic tracks lead us on a rail tour through the heartland of great American music - from Nashville, home of Country Music, to the Blues, Soul and Rock»n' Roll of Memphis and the jazz of New Orleans.
Celebrate the long history of great American music on this fascinating tour across the Deep South - from Nashville, home of Country, to the Blues, Soul and Rock»n' Roll of Memphis and the jazz of New Orleans.
While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.
But Chicago is, first and foremost, a city at the heart of American industry, a beacon during the Great Migration that brought millions of black Americans from south to north and, with them, the traditions of delta blues, hot jazz and gospel, which came together in the music of Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy.
As the work on view in Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist eloquently attests, Motley rightly holds a place among the great American modernists.
The omission seems odder still when you consider that this era, the Roaring 20s and Depression 30s, is the great dawning of American culture, from skyscrapers and jazz bands to speakeasies and Scott Fitzgerald, mass production, hard - boiled gumshoes and Hollywood.
«It's about loss; there's a black mask and sublimation... [B] lackface minstrel was the first great American abstraction, even before jazz.
The Jazz Age movement, known for its sleek depictions of industry that tend to fall just on the romantic side of Photorealism — which mostly subsided in favor of more comforting figural works as the Great Depression (and American Regionalism) rolled in — is the subject of an upcoming survey at San Francisco's de Young Museum.
The two great and uniquely American contributions to cultural history are Jazz and Abstract Expressionism, of which Mr. de Kooning is a founder; he was the hands - down greatest American painter in modern art history.
African American history, from the Great Migration and Jazz age are depicted by other artists like Romare Bearden (1911 - 88) and Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 - 72).