Sentences with phrase «american jazz musician»

Not - to - be-missed performances include famed South African artist William Kentridge's interpretation of Kurt Schwitters» celebrated Dada sound poem The Ursonate at the Half Church in Harlem, and Ethiopian - born American artist Julie Mehretu's collaboration with American jazz musician Jason Moran, which confronts the current political landscape with gestural articulations and New Orleans - style funeral procession sounds.

Space Is the Place (January 28) Written by and featuring Sun Ra, this 1972 sci - fi film narrates the adventures of this African - American jazz musician and composer on a new planet in outer space.

Yet, Shepherd's «dieties» — Alice Coltrane (musician, wife of legendary John Coltrane), Sun Ra (American jazz musician), Frantz Fanon (revolutionary author from Martinique who was immensely influential in the field of post-colonial studies), and Octavia Butler (American science fiction author)-- are a far cry from the (Caucasian) sitters generally encountered in such traditional portraiture: Christ, Virgin Mary, and various saints, for instance.

In reference to Charles Mingus, the American jazz musician who passed away in Mexico in 1979, the painting embodies an improvisation and intensity, which both ignites and neutralizes meaning.

For their Performa 17 commission, Ethiopian - born American artist Julie Mehretu and American jazz musician Jason Moran have been collaborating to create an experience that contemplates mourning and abstraction in response to the current political landscape.

If Marvel wants to inject T'Challa's personal life with some high drama, introducing American jazz musician and chronic damsel - in - distress Monica Lynne would be an interesting choice.

Billie Holiday was an American jazz musician and songwriter.

This marvelous read - along of Ehrhardt's rhythmic picture book, a joyous introduction to nine African American jazz musicians, is read by Williams, who is backed with sound effects and original music and riffs honoring the jazz artists» melodic styles.

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He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

I founded LVanHart Artist Productions in 1997, a company that manages the careers of world - class jazz musicians who travel the globe as performers, educators and ambassadors of this uniquely American art form.

Local 802 (American Federation of Musicians) at 322 West 48th St. Live jazz music and tickets starting at $ 25.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&rajazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raJazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raJazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raJazz.»

Jazz musician Louis Armstrong's Selmer Trumpet, Muhammad Ali's boxing equipment, and the tennis racket used by the first African American to win at Wimbledon, Althea Gibson, can also be seen.

Poetic vignettes depict the dramatic story of a band of African American soldiers — who are also jazz musicians — during WWI.

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.

«Hors - Champs», a video filmed «live» by STAN DOUGLAS and one other camera man, records the performance of four American musicians playing a Free Jazz composition.

By choosing four American musicians (George Lewis - trombome; Douglas Ewart - saxophone; Kent Carter - bass, and Oliver Johnson - drums) who either lived in France during the Free Jazz moment or who still reside there today STAN DOUGLAS points to the continuous presence of African - American music in Europe, starting with Josephine Baker and Sidney Bechet and continuing to the present.

In Douglas's installation, four musicians interpret Spirits Rejoice (1965), one of the seminal compositions of 1960s free jazz, by the iconoclastic American saxophonist and bandleader Albert Ayler.

Marsalis is celebrated for his music, performing as part of the New Orleans - based American Jazz Quintet with musicians Ed Blackwell, Alvin Batiste, Richard Payne, and Harold Battiste.

Instead, he went on to become a jazz musician and a painter, inserting images of African Americans in scenes where he thought they should — and knew they did — exist.

'' Join us for the unveiling of the landmark artwork, «Symphony in DC Major,» commissioned by City Market at O and created by renowned sculptor and third - generation Washingtonian, Zachary Oxman, The massive three - part sculpture, occupying an entire city block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma Thomas.

Saint Phalle chose prominent and inspiring members of the African American community related to sports or music to highlight in the Black Heroes series, such as jazz musicians Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, performer Josephine Baker, and athletes Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Tony Gwynn.

John Szwed is an anthropologist, musician, and writer who has taught African American studies, film studies, music, anthropology, and performance studies at New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Columbia University, where he was director of the Center for Jazz Studies from 2009 — 14.

In any case, there is no information on individual artists, some of whom, like the wonderful Bob Thompson — an African American painter and jazz musician who died of a heroin overdose in 1966 — really deserve to be better known.

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

In their book, «A History of African - American Artists» (Random House, 1992), Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson devoted a chapter to Mr. Wilson, ranking him as a significant artist and citing works like «Second Genesis» and «Jazz Musicians,» both at schools in Baltimore, where he was born.

American artist Lucas Ajemian, along with his brother Jason, a jazz musician and composer, assembled a ten - piece classical orchestra for their performance of the legendary rock song, «Into the Void» by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

Part 4 — Cecil Taylor — from April 15 to 24 Jazz legend Cecil Taylor (b. 1929) will be celebrated in a series of collective live music performances, he will make together with friends and fellows, which will be the centerpiece of an exhibition dedicated to the history and art career of one of the most skilled, innovative and rule - breaking American musicians.

As a young African - American artist in New York City, Thompson took advantage of his vibrant surroundings, befriending celebrated jazz musicians, noted art historians, and Beat poets alike.