Sentences with phrase «also jazz musicians»

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

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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.

Let's continue our LGBTQ History Month exploration of LGBTQ parents in history with a look at jazz musician and bandleader Billy Tipton, who was also transgender and dad to three sons.

«Miles Davis, a famous jazz trumpet player, inspired other musicians to adopt a new sound which used a series of tones, also called a scale, that could evoke both somber and upbeat moods in a listener, called the Dorian scale.

Not only is it a working church and community centre with a long running programme to help homeless people, but it's also an award winning arts venue that has played host to rock bands, comedians, classical and jazz musicians, and all kinds of live performance.

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.

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.

The young performers also got time to ask questions of all the musicians as part of the Jazz Roots program.

The musicians of Jazz Artists of Charleston also accompanied the evening with their beautiful sounds, and we greatly thank them for their entertainment.

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.

Other musicians, such as the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Colin Hunter and Joe Sealy's Quartet, Ramon Vazquez Trio with Edmar Colon and Danny Diaz, Ignacio Berroa's Quartet with special guest Giovanni Hidalgo, and Big Band Conservatory of Santo Domingo, along with many more, will also be performing.

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.

The exhibition also includes a recurring live performance entitled 3 -2-1 (2011/16), in which saxophonist André Vida improvises alongside musician Jemeel Moondoc's recorded lamentation in Long Sorrow, expanding on the dynamics of free jazz in a duet that changes with each recital.

The exhibition also includes a recurring live performance entitled 3 -2-1 (2011/16), in which saxophonist André Vida improvises alongside musician Jemeel Moondoc's recorded lamentation in Long Sorrow, expanding on the dynamics of free - jazz in a duet that changes with each recital.

She was influenced not only by her contemporary painters, but also by writers and musicians — poet Frank O'Hara was a close friend, she was infatuated with jazz, and she frequented a bar where Miles Davis and Tennessee Williams were regulars.

For selected Thursday and Saturday nights in April, Southern Exposure has curated a series of performances with a diverse selection of experimental Bay Area musicians, playing not just reggae but also jazz, hip - hop, techno, and more.

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

Gates's construction also serves as a contemplative space meant to inspire dialogue across philosophical and cultural boundaries on topics ranging from politics and religion to culture, food, and art as well as a performative space for the Black Monks of Mississippi, a group of Baptist - Buddhist musicians who mix slave spirituals, monastic chants, and jazz to create a singular sonorous experience.

I'm also an «aficionado» jazz musician, playing guitar.