Sentences with phrase «as jazz»

HOTEL RESERVATIONS This is the same weekend as Jazz Fest, so please book your hotel rooms in advance!

De Shazer was originally trained as a classical musician and worked as a jazz saxophonist.

For the past three years, I have worked as a jazz piano teacher and have had the opportunity to teach improvisation and jazz theory to students between the ages of five and sixteen.

An excellent dancer with in - depth knowledge of various art forms such as jazz, salsa, hip hop, samba, break dance, bollywood, waltz, flamenco, etc..

You can switch between different sound profiles — such as jazz, rock, electronic and dance — and, if you have some music playing, you'll be able to hear the difference in real - time.

Karen R. Ristuben, who is of counsel to the firm, recently released Too Much, her debut CD as a jazz singer.

Photo: Honda Patience is a Virtue Mentions of a hybrid version of the Honda Fit (known as the Jazz in most of the world) can be found as far back as 2006.

Think of how much greenhouse emissions would be avoided if more people used a small car such as a Jazz and a little camper trailer rather than big 4WDs and big caravans!

Lee was SMS before there was SMS... But his nuggets, once deciphered, were like riddles and clues to treasures of data on any topic.He had the knack of interdisciplinary data mining, to cut to the heart of social responses to bus - rapid - transit in Xian or Makati, or to the illogic of cash for guzzler programs that claim one thing yet deliver another, or to a longitudinal housing preference survey that could me mined for data on the economics of transport choices.Lee saw the forests and the trees in a dance as whimsical as his Jazz.

Project Natale is a band of brothers playing brotherly music that has gained world respect as jazz players infusing the old and new to creating a sonafication of their own.

Painting, like other forms of art such as jazz, is a «happening.»

She has always used a variety of natural (sand, dirt, rocks, seed pods) and unconventional (panty hose, found objects, masking tape) materials to fashion her works, utilizing these materials as a jazz musician utilizes notes and sounds to improvise a composition.

[1][2] From 1940 — 45 he worked as a jazz saxophonist in New York City, changing his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 after being introduced as «Larry Rivers and the Mudcats» at a local pub.

The a cappella music group from Harvard University will perform contemporary pop hits as well as jazz, country, and indie / rock alternative songs.

His work combines diverse influences such as jazz, European modernism, comics, and Hebrew texts.

In the last five years, programming has expanded to include year - round events, partnerships and co-presentations with organizations such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Young Patrons of Lincoln Center and Revive Music.

Models adorned in jewels and couture gowns, literary giants of the era, and Broadway actors and Ziegfeld Follies dancers: the subject matter is as sensational as the Jazz Age itself.

As a Jazz lover, I was in heaven lying back in my chair, watching an off - the - wall film of two women having a conversation inside a fridge about Jazz, while behind my head vinyl played a conversation about saxophonist Ornette Coleman and Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.

Throuhgout Bearden's career as an artist, he was heavily influenced by African - American life and culture as well as jazz music.

Like the musical genre, Ab - Ex is considered to be the first purely American art movement, and — as jazz did with music — shifted the art world's center of gravity to the States.

One of his classmates there was Miles Davis, who introduced him to other jazz musicians, and Rivers was soon touring the United States with different groups as a jazz saxophonist.

Born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg in 1923, Rivers studied music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music and initially pursued a career as a jazz saxophonist, playing regularly in New York City nightclubs.

Think of it as the Jazz Fest of avant - garde sculpture, painting and digital art.

Slogans like «Black Is Beautiful» and «Black Power,» as well as jazz and soul music, became the soundtrack for works by painter Murry DePillars, mixed - media artist Ben Jones, and muralist Dana Chandler.

His rich improvisational explorations of subjectivity, identity, and history can be linked to modes of black cultural production, such as the jazz ensemble, which encompasses a search for freeform movement among order.

His first incarnation was as a jazz saxophone player (he changed his name when the band was introduced as «Larry Rivers and the Mudcats» at a New York club).

The general consensus, then, is that this Muscovite artist — the 13th of 14 children — left his affluent, horse - breeding home at the age of 12, earning a living as a jazz guitarist (first in the pre-revolutionary Russian capital, and later across the cafes of Europe after fleeing the bloodshed with his aunt Nadia, a singer).

It shows in the window frames and the art as jazz — including the oldest collage trick in the book, musical scores.

Deco Japan: Shaping Art & Culture, 1920 — 1945 Drawn from the Levensen Collection, this traveling show emphasizes «the contradictions of Japan as the Jazz Age collided with military expansionism overseas.»

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.

Moreover, Gaines's artistic output has been greatly influenced by the composer and artist John Cage's use of chance and indeterminacy; the repetitive, minimal compositions of Steve Reich; and his own background as a jazz percussionist.

The old metaphor of abstract art as jazz would only begin to describe Jessie T. Pettway's «Bars and String - Pieced Columns,» created in the 1950s.

Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have over 30 years of experience documenting the African American experience in Louisiana, photographing New Orleans culture such as jazz funerals and second line parades.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Cecilia Bengolea (b. 1979, Buenos Aires) was trained as a jazz and urban dancer and studied Eugenio Barba's ancestral dances, also known as anthropological dances.

«They brought me into this other space of contemporary performance culture, contemporary aesthetics, all things I had never thought about as a jazz musician.»

He changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 as he worked as a jazz musician while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music.

He did fill his paintings with spontaneous passages, as a jazz musician might, and after a brief time early in his career it seems that he went directly into his paintings without any significant compositional studies.

A frequent collaborator with artists and poets, Rand has worked as draughtsman with Robert Creeley and John Ashbery and explored subjects as diverse as jazz, the Bible, and Jewish history.

He later changed his name to Larry Rivers, in the early 1940s, while playing as a Jazz saxophonist with the group «Larry Rivers and the Mudcats».

Larry Rivers (1923 — 2002) started his career as a jazz musician in 1940 while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music, and later shifted towards the world of visual art.

This loss is a crucial one for CAPA, which has a history of producing top - tier artists, such as R&B crooners Boyz II Men and Amel Larrieux, as well as jazz bassist Christian McBride and organist - trumpeter - vocalist Joey DeFrancesco.

Over time this evolved into a second art career as a jazz singer / songwriter!

Various parties involved in the making of the record will be present for this two - day run at the Flatiron venue known as the Jazz Standard, connected to the barbecue purveyor Blue Smoke.

Earlier that year, in my other incarnation as a jazz singer / songwriter, I'd been to a guerrilla marketing seminar for independent music artists, where I was beaten over the head with the importance of having a blog, a Facebook fan page, and tweeting regularly on Twitter.

If something, like a particular genre such as jazz or rock, is interesting to you, then it should be considered great music.

Love him or hate him, Cliff Bleszinski is one talented chap and his work on great titles such as Jazz Jack Rabbit, Unreal Tournament and more recently, the critically acclaimed Gears of War series on Xbox 360 have earned him a great deal of respect, at least as far as his game creation prowess is concerned.

The OneUps are a video game cover band that focuses on unique arrangements of video game music in a variety of styles such as Jazz, Rock, Funk, Metal and Hip - Hop.

Do they go through approval - and if so, are some of the memes (such as jazz, which is the current flavour) actively encouraged and promoted?

Located in the heart of Colorado's Beaver Creek Resort, this 530 - seat theatre presents a variety of year - round performances, such as jazz, comedy, dance, film, musicals, theatre, family shows and more.

The Amphitheater, which hosts special events and live music such as jazz, rock and symphonies during moonlit nights, is certainly a welcomed treat at this resort.