Sentences with phrase «best jazz musicians»

A keen drummer, he was a member and with Frank Wollny co-founder of the free jazz group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kuhn.

This event attracts some of the best jazz musicians from around the world so plan your trip early to avoid disappointment.

And it requires a set of skills quite closely aligned to those required for musical improvisation of the kind manifested by, say, a good jazz musician.

Stan Tatkin says that being a Couples Therapist is like being a good Jazz Musician.

«Like any good jazz musician, you can go on all night doing these variations.

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Your own soul will respond to the sweet, sultry magic of the best musicians working in the city that gave the world jazz.

Gather the family to enjoy some of the area's best jazz and classical musicians when they perform for WGBH's cameras at Boston Holiday!

Your kid will be in good company too with predecessors like famous jazz musician Miles Davis and football player Miles Austin.

It's a very good event for a part - time jazz musicians.

refugee crisis and the best live recordings of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie.

Flock of Four World Premiere Writer / Director: Gregory Caruso Starring: Braeden Lemasters, Shane Harper, Coco Jones, Reg E. Cathey Logline: In 1959, four best friends search for a legendary jazz musician and discover an unforgettable night of culture and music in South Central, Los Angeles.

Damien Chazelle's story of a young jazz musician who strives to be the best and the abusive band conductor who pushes him to the brink is tense and crescendos to a finale that is arguably the best of the year.

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.»

Hawke has been doing great work lately, but his portrayal of doomed jazz musician Chet Baker is one of the best things he's ever done.

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.

«What I say to any parent that wants to know the best approach to get kids interested in music: There's nothing better than exposure,» says Ellis Marsalis, father to a quartet's worth of jazz musicians, including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

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.

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.

Jonah Winter's picture book biography of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie is a good example of a story that is lighter on the facts than some might like; yet, it received six starred reviews and connects with kids in a special way.

He carries that legacy on at the Orania, where Berlin - based talents, from jazz musicians to poets, come in to perform, creating a welcoming, creative space for locals as well as guests.

«And being able to showcase world famous jazz musicians on Kaanapali Beach — voted one of the best beaches in the world by Trip Advisor — creates a truly exceptional experience.»

Before he started the gallery at the age of 28 in 1983, Martin played the violin, saxophone and keyboards as a professional musician in an orchestra and an ensemble as well as in a rock band, a jazz band and a folk band.

DeCarava, better known for his photographs of famous jazz musicians, spent most of his career documenting everyday life in Harlem.

Like jazz musicians, the artists of the Harlem Renaissance era travelled and interacted, and their art was cosmopolitan, inspired by European modernism as well as the cultural groundswell of black America.

In any case, there is no information on individual artists, some of whom, like the wonderful Bob Thompson — an African American painter and jazz musician who died of a heroin overdose in 1966 — really deserve to be better known.

An avid watcher of children's cartoons, as well as a keen rap musician and jazz enthusiast, his works are often underpinned by a sense of almost electrified reification.

Schadeberg's images are an insightful collection of photographs from South Africa's past, featuring portraits from Drum magazine to Nelson Mandela during the Treason Trial, forced removals from Sophiatown, the night life of jazz musicians and dancers as well as enigmatic scenes of township life.

The Bearden apartment on West 131st Street in Harlem was a frequent gathering place for such intellectuals as W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Countee Cullen, as well as artists Aaron Douglas and Charles Alston, and jazz musicians Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Andy Razaf.

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.

In New York, Gleizes produced his own works featuring jazz musicians, skyscrapers, luminous advertising signs as well as a number of the city's architectural highlights.

Performance: «Drawing Sound Part I: Billy Martin» at the Drawing Center Over the course of three consecutive evenings, artist and musician Billy Martin, best known as a member of jazz - funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood, has invited renowned musicians and friends (including Chris Cochran, John Medeski, Ikue Mori, Ned Rothenberg, Yoshiko Chuma, and Paul Auster) to interpret and perform his graphic scores and automatic drawings in this dynamic downtown institution's intimate space — proof that the avant - garde is still alive and well.

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.

And my favorite free festival in the world, coming up in a mere two weeks, is the New Orleans French Quarter Festival: four days of local old - and new - style New Orleans jazz & funk musicians taking over the Big Easy's historic French Quarter, as well as several stages along the banks of the Mississippi River, from morning till night.

If the Riva Festival is a class - act Jazz musician and the Sonos Play: 5 is a wealthy, Mercedes - driving business man, the Google Max is your best buddy who really likes to party.

«Celebrated jazz musician, Charles Mingus's version is the best.»