Sentences with phrase «as jazz musicians»

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.

Basquiat's art pieces in the 1970s and 1980s, included graffiti art on the buildings of New York City, as well as «crown» drawings that featured such heroes as jazz musicians wearing crowns.

The now -90-year-old legend delivers an emotionally charged dramatic performance as a jazz musician who struggles with the death of his wife and the possibility that she was unfaithful to him.

The legendary Forest Whitaker has always been a strong fit for historical roles, whether it was his work as jazz musician Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood's «Bird,» his Oscar - winning turn as dictator Idi Amin in «The Last King of Scotland,» or White House butler Eugene Allen in «The Butler.»

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.

He'll be leading a cast of more familiar faces including the Coen's longtime MVP John Goodman as a jazz musician, F. Murray Abraham as legendary folk manager Bud Grossman, Justin Timberlake (yes, you read that right) as a rival folk singer, and Carey Mulligan as Timberlake's wife.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

The swing revival did have the potential to make a widespread impact, as its lasting legacy in giving ball - room dancing a boost attests, but it was a far more ambitious idea than those other revivals, since for it to really work you needed a) jazz - musician participation, b) bigger bands, and perhaps even c) supper - club like venues.

As I entered the sanctuary, recognized the musicians, and read the published bulletin, I realized that this was going to be «jazz music Sunday».

Jeff Barnhart, one of the musicians who performed in the service at Spring Glen, described the basic shape of a jazz funeral as follows: «They (the performers) would play an old hymn such as «Just a Closer Walk with Thee» in the procession to the graveside.

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.

Wakefield celebrates this community in New York in the «50s, which began as an essay on Baldwin, at whose Village apartment Wakefield met jazz musicians, authors and intellectuals.

I founded LVanHart Artist Productions in 1997, a company that manages the careers of world - class jazz musicians who travel the globe as performers, educators and ambassadors of this uniquely American art form.

The new project, called MUSICA (short for Musical Improvising Collaborative Agent), aims to develop a musical device that can improvise a jazz solo in response to human partners, just as real jazz musicians improvisealongside one another.

Where non-specialists tend to think that it should not be too challenging for a professional musician to switch between styles of music, such as jazz and classical, it is actually not as easy as one would assume, even for people with decades of experience.

Even as he is a professional jazz musician, software developer, and pujari at the Sankaṭ Mochan Hanumān Temple, he aims to inspire creativity, spread happiness, and continually work for the cultivation of peace.

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.

In the middle of the film, Keith (John Legend) explains to Seb, who is a ~ serious musician ~ grudgingly playing for»80s cover bands to make a buck, why being obsessed with classic, 20th - century jazz is holding him back as an artist.

Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian - Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi - occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar.

Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian - Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi - occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and

Watching the movie feels as if you've sat down in someone's living room to hear tales of other legendary jazz musicians, such as Count Basie or Miles Davis.

Exercising some terrible mock trumpet - playing, Rourke stars as washed - up jazz musician Nate Poole, who finds himself on the wrong side of a grudge with gangster Happy Shannon (Murray).

Burt Lancaster stars as vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, who ropes an unprincipled press agent (Tony Curtis) into smearing the up - and - coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.

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.

Analysis: «Whiplash» writer - director Damien Chazelle returns with a musical, featuring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as an aspiring actress and a jazz musician in modern - day Los Angeles — dealing with struggles and fame as their relationship develops.

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scraps by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to frail the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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.

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.

Another family drama, in this case based on a true story, Jeff Preiss's Low Down is sensitively acted by Elle Fanning as a daughter devoted to her drug - addicted, jazz - musician dad, and John Hawkes as the father who adores her but can't kick his habit.

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.»

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as Mia and Sebastian, an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams — and finding each other — in a vibrant celebration of hope, dreams, and love.

John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.

It's almost novelistic in its structure, moving from episode to episode relatively languidly, including a substantial mid-film detour as Llewyn takes a road trip to Chicago with John Goodman «s cantankerous jazz musician and his valet (a nearly wordless, very impressive Garrett Hedlund).

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.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling gave amazing performances, but it's weird to have Ryan Gosling as the face of jazz (especially when he's consistently backed up by talented musicians of color).

Noonan was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Rosaleen and Tom Noonan, who worked as a dentist and jazz musician respectively.

«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.

We're watching «Some Like It Hot» and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are playing Joe and Jerry: two talented but threadbare Chicago jazz musicians working in a speak - easy fronted as a funeral parlor.

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.»

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

Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers — wars, political movements, technological advances — and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians... and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

A jazz musician as well as a memoirist (The Color of Water) and National Book Award - winning novelist (The Good Lord Bird), McBride idolized Brown in his youth and was puzzled to see the multi-million-selling soul singer fade into musical history soon after his death in 2006.

Harlan leads a fairly routine life as a young black musician in Jazz Age Harlem; then he and his close friend are invited to perform in Paris, where they get entangled with the Third Reich's brutality.

Our take: Youâ $ ™ ll enjoy the first half of the book as Greenspan recounts his progress from jazz musician to central banker.