Sentences with phrase «by jazz band»

Of course the eldest was in the finale — two fabulous numbers by the jazz band — so I had to stay until the end.

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These goofy creatures frolicked and danced to tunes like Somewhere Over The Rainbow, performed during the lead - up to the keynote by a smooth - jazz band with a hint of Hawaiian music.

Of course, live music is usually the safe route, but instead of the typical easy listening artist, change things up by booking a beat boxer or jazz band.

The evening begins at 6 p.m. with an outdoor performance by the Coral Springs Middle School jazz band.

Whether you enjoy a Latin dance party or a live salsa band, you can find your dating rhythm by becoming a regular at the Jazz Kitchen.

The tenth and final disc is dedicated to a documentary by Barbara Koppel (Harlan County U.S.A., Shut Up & Sing) entitled Wild Man Blues that follows Allen and his jazz band's 1996 tour of Europe.

In his first semester at the school, Andrew is quickly noticed by the school's top teacher, Mr. Fletcher, who is also the conductor of Schaffer's most important group — the competition jazz band.

The jazz music performed by the band (which, in some ways, is a character in the story) is tremendous.

After a bit of interaction with the band where he admonishes them for playing loud jazz over his explanation of jazz, Gosling is joined by Emma Stone, who initially seems to be chastising him for his delusional belief in his own jazz savior - hood until it's revealed that she actually believes the two of them saved jazz together.

Though Marsalis» score is available on CD, the mix of blues, big band, and Dixieland jazz are sampled in a short medley that's complimented by stills from the recording session.

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).

He brings that music to life at the Newport Jazz Festival, joined by his big band.

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

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.

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

While the story in Whiplash seems rather straightforward at first - a young musical prodigy is noticed by a prestigious jazz band teacher, who brings him in to improve and hone him - it doesn't take long for things to start twisting and turning.

The choice of this song is given initially by the instrumental resources used by the band which are closely related to their involvement with genres such as rock, jazz, folk and classical music.

Shared leadership has been described by US educator and author Phil Schlechty as «less like an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around...»

Vibrant and energetic artwork by local singer, contemporary painter and performance artist extraordinaire Stuart Carey, whose jazz band X-Tet performs at Seven every other Thursday.

Seven Bar & Kitchen: Vibrant and energetic artwork by local singer, contemporary painter and performance artist extraordinaire Stuart Carey, whose jazz band X-Tet performs at Seven every other Thursday.

Mom Tri's Boathouse features an art gallery with rotating shows by local artists along with a jazz band, Thai cookery classes and a superb menu.

Cocktails in the Lobby Salon, accompanied by a live jazz band, will close the evening in style.

The Lexington Market, founded in 1872, features over 100 local vendors cooking flavors from around the world along with live music by local jazz bands.

Having pursued the instrument into his teens, he improved his skills in a cover band that played jazz and rock music — mainly the songs of Deep Purple and progressive rock group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer — though he chose not to grow his hair like his fellow band members, always mesmerised by the music rather than the image.

From the authentic rubberhose animations (popularized by Fleischer Studios and Walt Disney in the 1930s) to the live recorded early 1900s - inspired jazz and big band soundtracks, this title does an incredible job of evoking the atmosphere of the American «roaring twenties» era, which perfectly complements the game's energetic and action - packed gameplay.

According to an obituary by William Grimes in The New York Times published on December 10, she was just 17 when she eloped with Jack Freilicher, a jazz pianist who played with the Army band at West Point during World War II.

The band's music echoes the then - current confluence of American jazz, funk and Afrobeat — a musical fusion made possible, as the video's title indirectly implies, by the emerging independence and rising profile of African nations.

In Luanda - Kinshasa (2013), Douglas presents a 1970s fictional jazz - funk band (led by jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran) in the midst of a recording session set in replica of the legendary Columbia 30th Street Studio.

American artist Lucas Ajemian, along with his brother Jason, a jazz musician and composer, assembled a ten - piece classical orchestra for their performance of the legendary rock song, «Into the Void» by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

On arrival visitors will be met by Stan Douglas» Luanda - Kinshasa, a work that finds a 1970s fictional jazz - funk band (led by jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran) in the midst of a recording session set in a replica of the legendary Columbia 30th Street Studio.

An article in the Wall Street Journal from 1999 states that «Although Pollock was hardly a traditionalist in his own art, his taste in jazz was for the classic New Orleans pioneers, the quintessential swing bands, the blues bards and Billie Holiday,» adding that «he had no use for such legendary modern - jazz figures as Charlie Parker, who were accused by traditionalist critics of burying the melody, splintering the rhythms and creating dissonance within dissonance.»

Rhythmic and lyrical, with a combination of pre-ordained structure and improvisation inspired in part by his love of jazz, the square - format paintings arrange rectangles of vivid, single colors in a deliberately irregular grid, with the close - fitting, many - hued «bricks» or «tiles» stacked vertically and arrayed in horizontal bands.

Music was provided by a host of New Orleans jazz and funk legends, including the famous band - leader and percussionist Stanton Moore.