Sentences with phrase «as jazz great»

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It's said that in jazz bands, the band is only as good as the worst player; no matter how great some members may be, everyone hears the worst player.

Then we arrive at the greatest jazz composer of them all, Duke Ellington — a man who seemed, to his fans, as secular as they come.

-LSB-...] a great way to jazz up odds and ends of leftovers as well.

As for music; Tallest Man on Earth, Goldfish and Caravan Palace [both dancy but good], a bit of jazz and old stuff like Fred Astaire, I like podcasts too, The Thrilling Adventure Hour is fantastic if you like old time radio stuff [it's not actually old time, just the style and is also a little odd but great!]

The Jazz Age Comes Alive in July at Windsor Court Hotel June 20, 2017 The Windsor Court Hotel is excited to again participate in Tales of the Cocktail by hosting the annual weekend of Prohibition Tea, as well as a Spirited Dinner, in partnership with William Grant & Sons, devoted to American jazz greJazz Age Comes Alive in July at Windsor Court Hotel June 20, 2017 The Windsor Court Hotel is excited to again participate in Tales of the Cocktail by hosting the annual weekend of Prohibition Tea, as well as a Spirited Dinner, in partnership with William Grant & Sons, devoted to American jazz grejazz greats.

You've seen it as he's taken Donovan Mitchell under his wing, and helped the Jazz maintain a great sense of comradery while making an incredible turnaround this season.

Don't Let Gentrification Be The Main Consequence of the Reclamation of the Bronx's Cultural Legacy It is great to see the cultural landmarks of the Bronx, such as the street jazz great Maxine Sullivan lived on, be officially recognized by -LSB-...]

You could jazz them up with a handful of chocolate chips, dried fruit or chopped nuts but they are great plain as well!

As a vision from diverse backgrounds, the riff behind the name pays homage to the late and great Jimmy Smith, a legendary 1960's jazz musician.

It will look great as a simple hairstyle, and you can always jazz it up.

No, «Moonlight» is truly a movie, ultimately a symphony of images that punches in the same weight class as such visionary narrative experiments as «2001: A Space Odyssey,» «Badlands,» «All That Jazz,» «The Limey,» «Three Times,» and perhaps most obviously the work of Wong Kar - Wai, possibly the world's greatest practitioner of sensual melancholy.

Although Friedman first studied classical piano, he fell in love with the voice of jazz and performed with jazz greats such as Chet Baker and Buddy DeFranco.

The film also moonlights as a tribute to jazz, centering on the greats of the past.

She's sweet and he's lowdown in Woody Allen's new movie starring Sean Penn as the world's second greatest jazz guitarist and Samantha Morton as a mute laundress who has the misfortune to cross his path.

Unusually for his generation, Andrew is fascinated by jazz greats such as Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington: a photo of Buddy Rich holds pride of place on his bedroom wall, and he dreams of emulating the great drummer's exploits.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Reverential Bio-Pic Pays Tribute to Legendary H.S. Bandleader After graduating from Wiley College (of «The Great Debaters» fame) back in the Thirties, Conrad «Prof» Johnson (1915 - 2008) briefly embarked on a promising career as a jazz musician, joining big band orchestras led by the likes of Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins.

At first, the setting is prohibition - era Chicago (right as the Great Depression was beginning to sink in), where Joe and Jerry play as part of a small jazz band in a speakeasy run out of a funeral parlor by criminal kingpin Spats Colombo (George Raft).

Corinealdi as the early love interest of jazz great Miles Davis, or the equally brilliant King in the vast - underrated The Birth of A Nation?

He has a great job as an executive at a smooth jazz radio station and is basking in newlywed bliss with gorgeous wife Sarah (Linda Cardellini).

Ethan Hawke learned to play the trumpet — and does his own singing — to authentically bring to life jazz great Chet Baker as he attempts a comeback after a 1968 assault.

A departure from his primarily orchestral work, his jazz - based score was as great as any of his other works.

«The Great Gatsby» follows Fitzgerald - like, would - be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky - rocketing stocks.

As the great jazz saxophone player Charlie Parker describes it, «You've got to learn your instrument.

Soothing music such as jazz is a great way to keep students calm.

The author F. Scott Fitzgerald whose novel, The Great Gatsby was one of the defining publishing events of the decade, labeled the Jazz Age so because jazz as a music form became increasingly popular during this time especially in big cities like New York and ChicJazz Age so because jazz as a music form became increasingly popular during this time especially in big cities like New York and Chicjazz as a music form became increasingly popular during this time especially in big cities like New York and Chicago.

Since this type of double - page spread illustration is not feasible in an eBook, we redesigned the chapter title pages of the eBook to look like this, incorporating color as well (a great way to jazz up your eBook):

Adam: I'm a jazz freak and to me there is no greater joy than putting on Coltrane, Miles, Art Blakey, Booker Little, or some other music as a soundtrack while I work.

As a new writer, Smith provided me with great resources and guidance to market my book Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale.

The area plays host to numerous festivals, some celebrating agricultural history, such as the Artichoke Festival, Garlic Festival and Strawberry Festival as well as a great many music festivals like the world famous Monterey Jazz Festival, Blues Festival and Bach Festival.

The area plays host numerous festivals, some celebrating agricultural heritage, such as the Artichoke Festival, Garlic Festival and Strawberry Festival as well as a great many music festivals like the world famous Monterey Jazz Festival, Blues Festival, and Bach Festival.

One of the best ways to appreciate music in the Napa Valley is outdoors and Downtown Napa has great street festivals during the summer and fall — such as Blues, Brews & BBQ — featuring mostly blues and jazz and plenty of street food, wine and beer.

The West End also includes Downtown Napa's growing cultural attractions such as the new Uptown Theatre, which draws some of the country's greatest acts from rock, jazz, comedy and country, as well as art galleries and public art works.

The announcement comes during the 45th annual edition of Jazz Fest, which runs through Sunday, May 4 and is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest and most influential annual celebrations.

The party continues well into the early hours and is a great way to experience some traditional Cape Verdean music like Morna, as well as jazz, samba, reggae and much more.

Zinc is a great way to protect your face from the burn too, as it is completely water - resistant [and you can even get a funky pink colour to jazz up your surfing look!].

Welcome to Recanto Azul HostelRecanto Azul Hostel is conveniently located close to the Historical Centre of Paraty, great restaurants, markets, drugstores, bakeries and the main plaza where the great festivals of Paraty, as the International Literature Fest, Cachaça Festival, Bourbon Jazz Festiv

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.

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

This is a soundtrack that most will probably want to download and own for themselves as the developers took a great mix of smooth jazz sounds and enhanced the game in ways that resonate with the art styles that are a remembrance of Picasso.

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.

Jazz musicians have a list of standards, great tunes on which they improvise, hearing (playing) them as they haven't been interpreted before.

She described the situation like this: «The fact of the matter is that there have been no supremely great women artists, as far as we know, although there have been many interesting and very good ones who remain insufficiently investigated or appreciated; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, no matter how much we might wish there had been.»

Mali Morris interviews Geoffrey Rigden where we learn about the influence of jazz, the teaching of Hans Hofmann, what it means to be contemporary (what a great question, by the way), the influence of Noland and Louis in the early days as well as Milton Avery and Albert Marquet, also other less well known figures at the time like Adolf Gottlieb, for Rigden «still more pertinent and engaging than Pollock».

Music, in particular the speed and improvisation of early boogie - woogie and jazz, became great influences in Mondrian's work, as exemplified in his iconic painting Broadway Boogie - Woogie, which evoked the bustling, noisy energy of the city.

In the years leading up to his untimely death in 1966, Thompson was a habitué of downtown New York's underground jazz clubs, where he watched the great innovators of free jazz, including Ornette Coleman and Milford Graves, as well as the towering figures of post-bop and hard - bop, including Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey.

El» Zabar has performed alongside a myriad of jazz greats such as Cannonball Adderley, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and Dizzy Gillespie, but also in the bands of Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone.

The Jazz Museum at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel muJazz Museum at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel mujazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel music.

In all its diversity, the blues has been hailed as one of America's greatest cultural achievements and, along with jazz, has even been called America's classical music.

I had a lot of fun, studying jazz and playing with some great, great people but I realized that I wasn't going to cut it as professional musician.

As the work on view in Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist eloquently attests, Motley rightly holds a place among the great American modernists.