Sentences with phrase «greatest jazz musicians»
About Blog Famous Jazz Musicians 1904s - 2017: Introducing some of the greatest jazz musicians of the century.
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George Condo approaches painting like a great jazz musician reinterpreting popular melodies to express their own intense feelings.
Just as a great jazz musician can use a happy song as a vehicle to evoke their own sad emotions, Condo can use a masterpiece as a vehicle to evoke his own turbulent emotions.
Not exact matches
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.
1 and 2 (Netflix, Feb. 1) and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Netflix and Hulu, Feb. 1), though of the films that came out yesterday, we're most jazzed about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Netflix, Feb. 1), the deeply underrated John C. Reilly vehicle that parodied the musician biopic — which has some great songs, too.
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.
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.
Featuring a great jazz score from actor and musician John Lurie (The Lounge Lizards, Fishing With John, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law).
Head to Todos Santos Plaza on Thursday nights the Farmers» Market and free music concerts in the Park with a great line - up of wonderful Bay Area musicians playing Salsa, jazz, zydeco, blues and more.
He proposed an group portrait in the spirit of Nina Leen's 1950 portrait of the Abstract Expressionists, «The Irascibles,» and Art Kane's 1958 portrait of Jazz musicians in «A Great Day in Harlem.»
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.
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.
This show, which takes its name from a 1964 album by the great experimental jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, weaves their work together to create a nuanced picture of the ways in which the spiritual has engaged the artistic imagination.
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.»
New York City About Blog Larry Corban is a New York City based jazz guitarist that has had extensive experience working with some of the world's greatest musicians.
«Many variations can be made from it, much like a jazz musician who takes a basic theme and then does riffs and spontaneous changes over a great song,» says Jeff.