Sentences with phrase «jazz musicians knew»

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You know, the famous jazz musician who recorded the song «Walkin»...» (cue snare drum).

Mia, an aspiring actress, and Sebastian, a dedicated jazz musician, are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts.

Damien Chazelle's film captures the story of Mia, an aspiring actress, and Sebastian, a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for destroying hopes and breaking hearts.

What It's About: «Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a dedicated jazz musician, are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts.

The «untitled Nina Simone project» — which has been in the works for several years but was on hold until now due to lack of funding — will tell the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist who became known as the «High Priestess of Soul,» including her rise to fame, her role in the Civil Rights movement, and her relationship with her manager.

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.»

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

Arguably the first Egyptian mummy score composed by a Frenchman (and a musician best known as a big band jazz artist behind the score to «Borsalino» at that), «The Awakening's» pairing might seem like strange sarcophagus fellows at first.

Off - kilter talents have often found voice in Woody's work, and the pairing of Sean Penn and a barely known Samantha Morton as, respectively, a 1930s jazz musician and his mute girlfriend is especially winning.

«Whiplash» is, as they say, a tough sell — I don't know how many adults will be interested in watching the travails of a teen musician, and I don't know how many teens will rush to a film about the work and agony required to play jazz drums.

«What I say to any parent that wants to know the best approach to get kids interested in music: There's nothing better than exposure,» says Ellis Marsalis, father to a quartet's worth of jazz musicians, including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

As free jazz musician Ornette Coleman once said, «It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.»

In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little - known in the West.

Jazz musicians are known for working together to create new and exciting riffs or new variations on familiar themes.

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.

In «Kahlil Joseph: Shadow Play,» his first solo presentation in New York, Joseph debuts Fly Paper (2017), a new film installation that departs from his admiration of the work of Roy DeCarava (1919 — 2009), a photographer and artist known for his images of celebrated jazz musicians and everyday life in Harlem.

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.

DeCarava, better known for his photographs of famous jazz musicians, spent most of his career documenting everyday life in Harlem.

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.

In the forty years that Larry Rivers has been a prominent artist, jazz musician and recently and author, he has been know for his outspokenness, irreverence, and wit.

An outstanding photographer, Crawford's pictures of the New Orleans jazz clubs he frequented and the musicians and dancers he came to know well are fascinating both in their own right and for what they reveal about how he approached the forms and visual rhythms in his paintings.

Carol Heft is married to jazz musician and composer Bill Warfield, and also is known to point out similarities between visual arts as music.

Performance: «Drawing Sound Part I: Billy Martin» at the Drawing Center Over the course of three consecutive evenings, artist and musician Billy Martin, best known as a member of jazz - funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood, has invited renowned musicians and friends (including Chris Cochran, John Medeski, Ikue Mori, Ned Rothenberg, Yoshiko Chuma, and Paul Auster) to interpret and perform his graphic scores and automatic drawings in this dynamic downtown institution's intimate space — proof that the avant - garde is still alive and well.

The world - famous concert venue is known for its nightly lineup of classic and up - and - coming jazz, country, folk, bluegrass and R&B artists in an intimate setting, and has welcomed musicians like Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Esperanza Spalding and still offers a mix of legends and rising stars in an intimate setting.

Background: For decades, Jazz musicians have relied on a series of illegal sheet music publications known as either a «Real Book» or a «Fake Book».

It has had numerous musicians prominent in blues, gospel and jazz, and was known for decades for its illegal nightclubs on the Gold Coast; one site has been designated for the Mississippi Blues Trail.