Sentences with phrase «in jazz piano»

She attended Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, and won Best Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).

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The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

I once asked a jazz piano great, which scale he had used in a particular section of a piece he played called «Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.»

He would slip into the campus auditorium, settle into the piano bench in the orchestra pit and begin jazz riffs.

Morgan had the opportunity to go to overnight camps for a week or more, to participate in after school activities, go to Prom and Homecoming, participate in the Forensics (Speech / Debate) team with overnight trips, play piano as the accompanist for the high school Jazz Choir, mountain bike... basically, he was a real boy!

ON 25 JUNE, jazz singer and high - school music teacher Daniel Hutchins broke into a ballad at the San Antonio Convention Center in Texas, accompanied by music student Jacob Mann on piano.

J. S. Bach's father and uncles were accomplished musicians, Charlie Parker's old man played piano on the vaudeville circuit, Paul McCartney's pop blew the trumpet in a band, and Prince got his name from his dad's jazz trio.

Thereby, different procedures may have established in their brains while playing the piano which makes switching between the styles more difficult,» says Daniela Sammler, neuroscientist at MPI CBS and leader of the current study about the different brain activities in jazz and classical pianists.

Patients in the music group listened to their choice of instrumental jazz, classical piano, harp and flute, nature sounds or world music.

Her work blends blues, jazz, gospel and folk with the training she received in classical piano.

With this album they succeded in mixing progressive rock (see the intro in Touch), Jazz (see the electric piano medley in Giorgio by Moroder) electropop and of course dance togheter.

Gervais does prickly and oblivious well, and his eye - rolling, dismissive «Oh, good, jazz» at the sound of a piano coming from a middle - of - nowhere bandit roadhouse makes for a rare offbeat joke in a movie of lazy gags.

October 2, 2015 • Seated at the piano in NPR's studios, Anthony de Mare explains why he commissioned composers from the classical, jazz and Broadway worlds to interpret some of Sondheim's finest songs.

Although Friedman first studied classical piano, he fell in love with the voice of jazz and performed with jazz greats such as Chet Baker and Buddy DeFranco.

In this 2005 Piano Jazz session, Wamble and host Marian McPartland perform a number of genre - spanning standards, from «St. Louis Blues» to John Coltrane's «Naima.»

In celebration of his 83rd birthday, hear his Piano Jazz performance from 1996.

The film is also aurally ravishing; in his fourth project with the director, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood composes a score that encompasses everything from an opening blast of cochlea - rattling drone to silkiest jazz piano.

Conal Fowkes, the piano player in Allen's regular jazz band, is confirmed to appear and performs.

Unfortunately, Gosling will be overlooked, though the fact that he spent four months learning to play jazz piano should put him over the top in the balloting.

November 10, 2017 • Hear «America's First Lady of the Piano» explore the boundaries between classical music and jazz with host Marian McPartland in this 2004 episode.

Moore's work is evident in both of these behind - the - scenes looks at the making of La La Land, including the glorious waltz sequence that is part of the film's seven - minute epilogue and the jazz whip sequence featured in a split screen with Emma Stone's dancing and Ryan Gosling's piano riffs.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling make for a terrific pair of leads: she's an aspiring actress who works at a coffee shop on the Warner Bros. studio lot, he's a jazz musician reduced to playing Christmas piano in a restaurant.

In a move that's sure to surprise his fans, Johnson rearranged Jimi Hendrix» «One Rainy Wish» for guitar and piano, capping the performance with a jazz - inflected piano solo.

Recorded live at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh, the set kicks off with an improvised boogie - woogie that shows why Pickens» contemporaries revered him as «one of the foremost piano players in jazz.»

The atmosphere is convivial and lively, thanks in part to an accompanying blast of free jazz from legendary saxophonist Idris Ackamoor — one in a number of surprising soundtrack cues, ranging from deep funk to blues, that pockmark the piano - driven score by composer David Shire.

Or, teaching is more like playing jazz piano: you learn concepts, practice reactions, by learning to hear the chords, and then perform these responses spontaneously, interacting with the other musicians in such a way that you play with honest feeling in order to make «music» together.

Titles to suggest for research include: Baby Flo, by Alan Schroeder; Ray Charles, by Sharon Bell Mathis; When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, by Pam Muñoz Ryan; Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa, by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Knockin» On Wood: Starring Peg Leg Bates, by Lynne Barasch; Paul Robeson, by Eloise Greenfield; Sweet Music in Harlem, by Debbie A. Taylor; Rent Party Jazz, by William Miller; Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, by Christopher Raschka; Dizzy, by Jonah Winter; When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat, by Muriel Harris Weinstein; Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles — Think of That!

At the same time, I was doing piano gigs in Toronto jazz clubs, restaurants and hotel lounges.

In her spare time, she enjoys jazz and hip - hop dance, playing the piano and oboe, and spending time with her family and friends.

Sheen Falls Lodge is not only perfectly placed for exploring the southwest of Ireland, the world famous Ring of Kerry and the famous Killarney Lakes, but it is also known for its piano - jazz ambience, its collection of old Irish whiskeys, its selection of fine wines from one of Ireland's largest wine cellars and the dishes prepared with the salmon caught in the nearby river.

«The vibrance and creativity of Chrono Trigger translates to a piano album that is dynamic and versatile, with a fusion of classical, jazz, rock, Japanese pop and more, but in such a way that feels organic and essential.

«I became specifically interested in composing when I was in high school, taking jazz piano and improvisation lessons.

The artist's inspiration for Piano Chair is South African pianist and composer Mosese Molelekwa, widely known as «the brightest hope for a renaissance of South Africa's jazz culture,» according to his obituary in The Guardian.

Wander through Glyndor Gallery and find plenty to edify body and soul in The Shop and The Café, including informal piano performances in the Mark Twain Room of Wave Hill House — the sets will range from classical and jazz to show tunes and works composed by the guest pianists.

Yvonne shows in Brisbane with FireWorks Gallery and was involved through the gallery with a jazz concert at Brisbane Steinway Piano Showroom at Newstead.

Lifelike Family Day Schedule of Events on Saturday, November 17 10 am to 12 pm: Caricaturist 10 am to 12 pm: Uncle Wayne on Piano 10 am to 2 pm: BIG & small Drawings and Sculpting Faux Food — Lifelike inspired Art Making 11 am: StoryQuest: «Alice in Wonderland» presented by Skin Horse Theater 12 pm to 2 pm: Dixie Land Jazz Quartet: «Hot Potatoes» 2 pm: A panel discussion on Lifelike featuring Siri Engberg, curator at the Walker Art Center, Cameron Shaw, editor of Pelican Bomb, and artist James Casebere

While in the army in WW2, he concentrated on his other artistic talents as poet and jazz musician (alto - and tenorsax, piano); member of the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, touring in England.

Andrea Fraser created a sound installation about Sing Sing prison; Lucy Dodd peppered the gallery with free - standing abstract paintings and organized a festive music series in the space; Michael Heizer showed a monumental projection documenting — at full - scale — one of his earthworks; jazz icon Cecil Taylor exhibited archival documentation and ephemera from his long career, showed video of his piano playing and participated in a star - studded performance program; and filmmaker Steve McQueen screened a video about Paul Robeson's McCarthy - era FBI file.

Over the past fifteen years I've been listening to primarily jazz and classical music while I'm painting; my early musical foundation in piano, violin and voice probably contribute a lot to the continued interest.

The best I experienced, of any conference, was actually introduced by Hilde Schwab, and featured a moderator who played jazz piano for the group in order to explain how creative flow interacts with learned knowledge.

In his spare time, John plays piano in the Under the Stairs jazz quartet and also plays cello with two Toronto - based early music organizationIn his spare time, John plays piano in the Under the Stairs jazz quartet and also plays cello with two Toronto - based early music organizationin the Under the Stairs jazz quartet and also plays cello with two Toronto - based early music organizations.

Scott teaches music at a university and plays piano in a jazz band.