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Our Jazz Grill offers a selection of Fresh BBQ items including fruits and salads during the performances.

The researchers will then develop a performance system to analyze the components of human jazz performances, including the beat, pitch, harmony and rhythm.

The calendar of events includes performances by local artists specializing in all genres, including rock and jazz.

He appeared in five films in 1988, including Clint Eastwood's Bird, where he gave a memorable performance as jazz sax player Buster Franklin.

Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor.

His performing career has included solo recitals, chamber music, performances with his percussion trio, orchestral engagements, as well as jazz.

The performance, which will include the Coral Springs Middle School Jazz Band, will send proceeds to the Alex Schachter Scholarship Foundation, as well as the MSD and CSMS band programs.

However, the real festival season is from the start of August to mid-September and encompasses many arts sub-festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe (a festival focusing on comedy and avant - garde performances), The Art Festival, Jazz Festival, Book Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

This year's festival offered performances by jazz legends including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea.

The university's Cal Poly Arts organization also presents a varied mix of performances — including well - known names like jazz trumpeter Branford Marsalis and the quirky Blue Man Group — throughout the year; most take place at the campus's Performing Arts Center.

This year's festival offered performances by jazz legends including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick...

During the summer, Puglia has several music festivals, including the Centro Artistico Musicale Paolo Grassi and the Festival della Valle d'Itria that play host to a range of local and international music performances, like opera, classical and jazz.

Prehistory (Rock, fun, Primal) Antiquity (Synthesized, adventurous, Magical) Middle Ages (Natural, Worldly, Gentle) Present (Jazz, Soulful, Dance) Apocalyptic Future (Metal, Destruction, Dramatic) These eras cover a wide swath of genres and feature performances from a diverse range of talent including: Stemage (Metroid Metal), CarboHydroM (Extra Credits), professional composers Alexander Brandon and Dale North, William Carlos Reyes and Tim Yarbrough (The OneUps), and VGM cover bands Arc Impulse, Super Soul Bros., Videri String Quartet, Descendants of Erdrick, Eight Bit Disaster, Super Guitar Bros., Marshall Art, and MANY MORE.

NEW YORK — In celebration of the exhibition Christopher Wool, an international cast including writer Richard Hell, musician and composer Arto Lindsay, Scandinavian free - jazz band The Thing, and legendary multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee comes together for an explosive night of art and performance.

The exhibition also includes a recurring live performance entitled 3 -2-1 (2011/16), in which saxophonist André Vida improvises alongside musician Jemeel Moondoc's recorded lamentation in Long Sorrow, expanding on the dynamics of free jazz in a duet that changes with each recital.

The exhibition also includes a recurring live performance entitled 3 -2-1 (2011/16), in which saxophonist André Vida improvises alongside musician Jemeel Moondoc's recorded lamentation in Long Sorrow, expanding on the dynamics of free - jazz in a duet that changes with each recital.

These events will culminate with the closing weekend of Prospect.4, including the much - anticipated presentation of Kara Walker's new public artwork, The Katastwóf Karavan, which will be installed and activated daily on the bank of the Mississippi River in Algiers Point from Friday, February 23 through Sunday, February 25, and feature two special public performances with the artist and noted jazz pianist Jason Moran scheduled for Friday, February 23 at 4:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 24 at 2:30 p.m.

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.

The performance includes jazz vocalist Patti Graham, master jazz pianist Rio Clementer and guitarist and banjo player Sean Condron.

The unannounced performances include herself and several dancers that perform a meditative - style of ballet and jazz with the occasional bystander joining in the movement.

Entertainment includes live jazz from John Brown and a cappella performances by Duke groups Deja Blue and Speak of the Devil at 8:30 PM.

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center presents a wide range of media, including performance, visual art, alternative jazz and new music, literary readings, community presentations and media arts, shared with the communities of WNY and beyond.

The set includes towers of animal - skin drums and a breaded saxophone next to a deep - fryer — a remnant of Texas Fried Tenor, Cyrus» opening - night performance in which he deep - fried a saxophone, nodding as much to John Cage as to the history of jazz.

Once again curated by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran, this year's studio series, which runs through October 10, presents four evening events by creatives working on the interdisciplinary fringes of music, sound art, installation and performance including Curran, saxophonist and mixed media artist Matana Roberts, experimental music pioneer Charlemagne Palestine, and DJ and artist Juliana Huxtable.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

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 Kjazz 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 KJazz 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.

In addition to the site specific installations, FLUX is presenting programming (both free and ticketed) that includes tours, panel discussions, artist talks, Sip + Sketch evenings and performance, including those by the National Jazz Museum of Harlem and the Classical Theatre of Harlem.

Vocalist, composer, cultural worker Imani Uzuri is an eclectic interdisciplinary artist who creates concerts, experimental theater, performance art, theater compositions, and sound installations in venues / festivals, including Central Park SummerStage, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, Blue Note Jazz Club, Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, Performa Biennial, Festival Sons d'hiver, London's ICA, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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.

Not - to - be-missed performances include famed South African artist William Kentridge's interpretation of Kurt Schwitters» celebrated Dada sound poem The Ursonate at the Half Church in Harlem, and Ethiopian - born American artist Julie Mehretu's collaboration with American jazz musician Jason Moran, which confronts the current political landscape with gestural articulations and New Orleans - style funeral procession sounds.

This night's event highlights arts and music and includes artists Rita Barros; Margarida Correia; Isabel Pavão; Maria Clara Pereira; Joana Ricou, and performances by jazz singer Sara Serpa.

Past performances include the Kennedy Center, Twins Jazz Lounge, Blues Alley, D.C. and Baltimore Art Galleries, Wine Festivals, Jazz Concerts, private affairs, and lounge and restaurant venues.

The show — which runs from September 4 to 13 — includes exhibitions of skate decks, a panel discussion centered around skate videos and a performance by the Bandwagon, the group fronted by Jason Moran (the Kennedy Center's artistic director for jazz and also the festival's curator), who will execute a live improvisation while skaters do their thing on the ramp.

In addition, he co-curated the DMA exhibitions All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts (2009), There and Back Again: Selections from the Graham D. Williford Collection of American Art (2005), and Imperial Taste: Chinese Porcelain for the Western Trade (2005); curated Ten for Tea (2007) and Through the Needle's Eye: American Quilts from the Permanent Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art (2004); reinstalled the Museum's American decorative arts holdings, including the creation of galleries dedicated to 19th - century American silver and 20th - century design; and was responsible for numerous major acquisitions, including the Huntingdon Wine Cistern, a pair of Louis Comfort Tiffany «undersea» windows, a rare Gustav Stickley linen chest, Viktor Schreckengost's Jazz Bowl, and a variety of American silver works such as a «Viking» vase for the 1901 Buffalo Exposition, a Tiffany & Co..

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY Results - oriented Dance Teacher with 9 + years of hands - on experience in teaching theory and practice of many dance forms including Hip Hop, Jazz, Tango, Classical, and Ballet.

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Knoxville Opera's 17th - annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair presents 11 consecutive hours of live entertainment on five outdoor stages with performance including opera, jazz, ethnic music, gospel, modern and ethnic dance, ballet, vocal and instrumental ensembles.