Sentences with phrase «including jazz musicians»

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The neighborhood brewery converted an old grocery store and hosts several events including a weekly film series and jazz musicians.

Several jazz musicians from the 1970s have the name Sonny including Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Greer, and Sonny Payne.

Musical performers include a wide range of professional, student, and community musicians, including Full Gael Celtic Christmas, Worcester Men of Song, Quintebrass, Boston Jazz Voices, Geoff and Talia Brown Acoustic Christmas, Broadmoor Chamber Singers, Calliope Young at Heart Singers, the Quaboag Choral Society, and the Old Sturbridge Village Singers.

Dozens of people will participate in this Jazz Funeral, including families and local musicians.

Cases include the 1970 murder of a jazz musician leading a double life, a graffiti artist's fatal overdose in 1982 and the 1971 death of a young circus performer.

The «untitled Nina Simone project» — which has been in the works for several years but was on hold until now due to lack of funding — will tell the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist who became known as the «High Priestess of Soul,» including her rise to fame, her role in the Civil Rights movement, and her relationship with her manager.

Basically faithful recreations of lost fetish loops, narratively strung together by thin bio sketches, the film includes a surprisingly vibrant jazz score by Ryan, who appears in a short composer featurette with musicians.

He'll be leading a cast of more familiar faces including the Coen's longtime MVP John Goodman as a jazz musician, F. Murray Abraham as legendary folk manager Bud Grossman, Justin Timberlake (yes, you read that right) as a rival folk singer, and Carey Mulligan as Timberlake's wife.

It's almost novelistic in its structure, moving from episode to episode relatively languidly, including a substantial mid-film detour as Llewyn takes a road trip to Chicago with John Goodman «s cantankerous jazz musician and his valet (a nearly wordless, very impressive Garrett Hedlund).

«What I say to any parent that wants to know the best approach to get kids interested in music: There's nothing better than exposure,» says Ellis Marsalis, father to a quartet's worth of jazz musicians, including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

A must for jazz lovers, this series features intimate conversations with 60 legendary jazz musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, and Betty Carter, among others.

Basquiat's art pieces in the 1970s and 1980s, included graffiti art on the buildings of New York City, as well as «crown» drawings that featured such heroes as jazz musicians wearing crowns.

He has lead his ensembles at venues across the United States, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Brazil, and has performed and recorded with world - renowned jazz musicians including Clark Terry, George Russell, Eric Marienthal, Bob Moses, Jimmy Giuffre, Gene Bertoncini, Mick Goodrick, John Abercrombie, Tim Miller, Bevan Manson, John McNeil, and Rick DiMuzio.

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.

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.

Whatever nooks and crannies they missed were usually occupied by the different groups of musicians, including a jazz trio and an a cappella quartet performing Mr. Zorn's compositions.

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 include Jim Lambie's tribute in the form of an abstract sculpture to jazz musician Sun Ra (2014) made with brightly - coloured potato sacks or Luc Tuymans» William S. (2012) based on a found image.

BLACK AND BLUR — writings by Fred Moten on artists and musicians, including Charles Mingus, David Hammons, and Glenn Gould — is the first volume of CONSENT NOT TO BE A SINGLE BEING, a trilogy of essays published in the fifteen years since In the Break (2003), Moten's landmark investigation of jazz, sexual identity, and radical -LSB-...]

Between 1960 and the late 1970s, experimental labels such as Columbia and El Saturn released jazz by musicians including John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Colman and Sun Ra.

, Columbia, and El Saturn released jazz by musicians including John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Colman and Sun Ra.

From 1957 to 1960 Stock made lively portraits of jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington for his book Jazz Strjazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington for his book Jazz StrJazz Street.

Referred to as «the queen of the bohemian artists,» Abercrombie entertained many jazz musicians at her home at parties on Saturday evenings and jam sessions on Sunday afternoons, including friends Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins.

Additional contributors include writers Luc Sante and Darryl Pinckney, musicians Michael Holman, Felice Rosser, and Jennifer Jazz, historian Bud Kliment, and filmmaker Sara Driver.

The school staff had several members, including its president, who were capable jazz musicians.

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.

MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN Presented by Issue Project Room, a venerable experimental musician pays tribute to the seminal avant - jazz composer and musician Ornette Coleman, who died in June, with «Trinity,» a violin solo Mr. Coleman wrote for him, and a series of Mr. Goldstein's own works, including his trademark extended improvisations.

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.

As a musician, Hooker has performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Atrium at Lincoln Center, Wadsworth Atheneum, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Walker Art Center, MTV, The Kitchen, Roulette, Real Art Ways and numerous jazz festivals including JVC Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival and othjazz festivals including JVC Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival and othJazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival and othJazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival and othJazz Festival and others.

The triennial, which coincides with New Orleans» tricentennial celebration, brings together 73 artists dealing with issues of colonialism and displacement, with projects including: Odila Donald Odita creating a new work for the Algiers Point ferry, and John Akomfrah debuting a film about jazz musician Buddy Bolden.

This iconic image documented an historic moment for the Jazz community — 57 musicians were present, including legends Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk.

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.

A few artists spoke, including musician Sophie Millman (Juno Award winning jazz vocalist), musician Darryl Neudorf (via web comment) and TV writer Dan McGrath (member of the Writers Guild of Canada).