Sentences with phrase «greatest jazz artists»

Leonard's extraordinary photographs are widely regarded as the definitive portraits of many of the 20th century's greatest jazz artists.

«Students get the opportunity to perform along and learn from great jazz artists in the mentor — apprentice model that we learned from.

Not exact matches

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.

October 2014: Gathered at the «Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist» at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), from left, LACMA Curator Ilene Fort; Prof. Richard Powell of Duke University, exhibition curator; Valerie Gerrard Browne, wife of Archibald Motley III; Mara Motley, daughter of Browne and Archibald Motley III; Scott Dixon, Mara Motley's husband; Kirkland Bailey, great grand nephew of artist Archibald Motley Jr. Photo courtesy Valerie Gerrard Browne

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.»

Visual artist Kevin Beasley creates a site - specific sculptural and sound installation at the iconic Eldorado Ballroom, which served the Third Ward with a who's who of the great blues and jazz players from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Other than his titles, which are often derived from rock and roll or jazz («Great Balls of Fire,» «BlackBird,» and «SunRa»), the artist makes no allusions to popular culture.

Artist Statement «Louis Armstrong: our greatest Jazz innovator.

Music has always been a great influence on Mohr, a saxophonist as well as an artist, regularly playing in jazz and rock bands.

African American history, from the Great Migration and Jazz age are depicted by other artists like Romare Bearden (1911 - 88) and Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 - 72).

Over the summer of 2016 through a series of open calls, Meryl invited the artists, gallerists, journalists, and organizers of Bushwick to gather for group portraits inspired by Nina Leen's 1950 portrait of the Abstract Expressionists in «The Irascibles» and Art Kane's 1958 portrait of Jazz Musicians in «A Great Day in Harlem.»

Ray Parker had two loves in life, painting and jazz, and there are shared characteristics between the rhythms, phrasing, intervals and spontaneous riffing of great jazz and the works of more than a couple of the represented artists.