Sentences with phrase «about jazz musician»
The triennial, which coincides with New Orleans» tricentennial celebration, brings together 73 artists dealing with issues of colonialism and displacement, with projects including: Odila Donald Odita creating a new work for the Algiers Point ferry, and John Akomfrah debuting a film about jazz musician Buddy Bolden.
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Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox star in this upcoming drama about a jazz musician who meets a unique carnival woman while fleeing a gangster.
Documentarian Kasper Collin — who previously made My Name Is Albert Ayler, also about a jazz musician — looks at the difficult, abbreviated life of trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was shot dead in the winter of 1972 in New York.
BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND The LAFF program is filled with movies about music, from Clint Eastwood's «Jersey Boys» and John Ridley's «Jimi: All Is By My Side» to a documentary about jazz musician Frank Morgan to an in - depth look at the videos for Beyonce's last album.
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.
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I suppose in another place we could speculate at length about the Rev. Tillard's search among famous spiritual leaders for a father figure to take the place of the jazz musician who deserted his family when Conrad was young... but who cares really?
► Cardinal Timothy Dolan sent the mayor a CD of «Ave Maria» by Vittorio Grigolo while jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, sent a book about the first 25 years of jazz at Lincoln Center and a CD titled «The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis.&rajazz musician Wynton Marsalis, director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, sent a book about the first 25 years of jazz at Lincoln Center and a CD titled «The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis.&raJazz at Lincoln Center, sent a book about the first 25 years of jazz at Lincoln Center and a CD titled «The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis.&rajazz at Lincoln Center and a CD titled «The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis.»
«Miles Ahead,» actor - director Don Cheadle's unconventional film about the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, is odd and audacious — in other words, the kind of movie you should make if you're going to make a movie about the revolutionary and unconventional musician.
Musician (Unrated) Brainiac bio-pic examines the unorthodox musical career of avant garde jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, the Chicago - based recipient of a MacArthur genius grant who has released over a hundred albums, about one per month, comprised of non commercial tunes he's composed, arranged and performed with dozens of different ensembles.
1 and 2 (Netflix, Feb. 1) and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Netflix and Hulu, Feb. 1), though of the films that came out yesterday, we're most jazzed about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Netflix, Feb. 1), the deeply underrated John C. Reilly vehicle that parodied the musician biopic — which has some great songs, too.
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.
At the time of the movie's release, the common refrain concerning Chazelle's high school past as a jazz drummer was that it helped him to imbue his movie — about a musician — with a sense of musicality and rhythm.
Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and foreJazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forejazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.
An accomplished jazz musician and connoisseur of America's musical art form well beyond his other gigs of directing and acting, Clint Eastwood's scores have always been about memorable thematic simplicity, memorable melodies that other artists have helped him expound upon in such scores as «Unforgiven» and «Flags of Our Fathers.»
Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician («Whiplash»), actor («Birdman»), novelist («Listen Up Philip»), painter (Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner»), actor again (Chris Rock's upcoming «Top Five,») concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke - directed fall - festival documentary smash «Seymour»), actor once more (Olivier Assayas» «Clouds of Sils Maria»), rock singer (the Michael Fassbender - starring «Frank»), documentary filmmaker (Noah Baumbach's upcoming «While We're Young») and actor again (Al Pacino's «The Humbling»).
«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.
«Rob was conversant with every historical period and musical style and set about to compose and arrange music for a group of jazz musicians with whom he had worked in the past,» recalls Cardillo.
This manga wants to talk about not only Eurasian nomads, but New Guinea natives, CIA - backed psychic experiments, obscure jazz musicians, the art of Francis Bacon, human - computer symbiosis, «transp...
The Papillon / BluePort Jazz release, Matheny's 11th album as leader, showcases the talents of «some of the most accomplished musicians in the western United States» (All About Jazz): Bill Anschell, Matt Clark, Nick Manson, Charles McNeal, Susan Pascal, Phil Sparks, Todd Strait, Akira Tana, Jay Thomas and John Wiitala.
Malta About Blog A Malta - based artist Jeni Caruana paints live jazz musicians, dancers, nudes and landscapes.
About Blog Debra Hurd an Oil painter, is famous for her insightful paintings of animals, her vivid city scenes and her passionate and perceptive depictions of jazz, rock, and blues musicians.
I had the pleasure of chatting with both project organizer Andy Baio and chip musician Rich Vreeland about the ambitious plan to create the ultimate chiptune jazz tribute album.
The jazz innovator Cecil Taylor; the painter and musician Lucy Dodd; the filmmaker Steve McQueen; the earth artist Michael Heizer; and the skilled manipulator of human consciousness Andrea Fraser all outdid themselves, teaching us about life, space and the exhibition as form.
«They brought me into this other space of contemporary performance culture, contemporary aesthetics, all things I had never thought about as a jazz musician.»
Lee Ann Norman speaks with jazz musician Jason Moran about his multidisciplinary approach to music and what inspires him.
Graduate school in Cranbrook brought about a wider community, introducing me to the artists and jazz musicians of Detroit.
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.
We became friends at a time when we both were making critical decisions about our lives — Dan gave up being a jazz musician for a publishing enterprise and I turned from an art editorial role in the commercial publishing industry to be an artist.
About Blog Debra Hurd an Oil painter, is famous for her insightful paintings of animals, her vivid city scenes and her passionate and perceptive depictions of jazz, rock, and blues musicians.
Like many games of this genre (even Yooka - Laylee), the story eventually involves wacky animal characters and creatures such as a skeletal jazz musician (justified by the zombie dust) and an aged female scientist who is a turtle (I have no idea about that one).
Malta About Blog A Malta - based artist Jeni Caruana paints live jazz musicians, dancers, nudes and landscapes.
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New York City About Blog Larry Corban is a New York City based jazz guitarist that has had extensive experience working with some of the world's greatest musicians.
New York, NY About Blog The Jazz Gallery is a hub of creativity, a home to jazz musicians / composers, many of them from all over the world but now permanently settled in the United StaJazz Gallery is a hub of creativity, a home to jazz musicians / composers, many of them from all over the world but now permanently settled in the United Stajazz musicians / composers, many of them from all over the world but now permanently settled in the United States.
About Blog The Free Jazz Collective is a volunteer group of passionate and adventurous listeners and musicians dedicated to spreading the gospel of improvised music.
New York, New York About Blog This website provides Jazz Musicians with Jazz advice and Jazz tips to improve practice sessions and resources.
Malta About Blog A Malta - based artist Jeni Caruana paints live jazz musicians, dancers, nudes and landscapes.
About Blog Debra Hurd an Oil painter, is famous for her insightful paintings of animals, her vivid city scenes and her passionate and perceptive depictions of jazz, rock, and blues musicians.