Sentences with phrase «jazz artists like»

Not exact matches

Thornton Winery's Champagne Jazz Series is in its 28th year, bringing artists like Mindi Abair, George Benson, Chris Botti, Brian Culbertson, Kenny G, Al Jarreau, Dave Koz, Keiko Matsui, and Jeffrey Osborne to its elegant patio setting.

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Arguably the first Egyptian mummy score composed by a Frenchman (and a musician best known as a big band jazz artist behind the score to «Borsalino» at that), «The Awakening's» pairing might seem like strange sarcophagus fellows at first.

Newtown Social Club offers rock show most nights of the week, with popular Australian acts and cult international artists sharing the space, while underground venues like Red Rattler and Black Wire nurture active punk, jazz, and queer performance scenes.

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.»

Like artists as diverse as David Park in the Bay Area and Wallace Berman and William Claxton in L.A., however, Altoon's interest in the cool, seductive rhythms of West Coast jazz informed his work.

A lover of jazz, Thompson was a regular at the Five Spot, a jazz club frequented by New York artists and writers, where legendary talents like Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Charlie Haden played.

Much like jazz musicians, the artists of this tradition reflect the rich, symbolic world of the black rural South through highly charged works that address a wide range of revelatory social and political subjects.

John Corbett analyzes Wool's navigation between jazz - like improvisation and deliberate composition; Fabrice Hergott focuses on the artist's dialogue with the surface as a subject of the paintings; and John Kelsey digs into the artist's media - savvy black - and - white painted images: «Gestures go viral, escaping one painting and contaminating another.

Like jazz musicians, the artists of the Harlem Renaissance era travelled and interacted, and their art was cosmopolitan, inspired by European modernism as well as the cultural groundswell of black America.

In any case, there is no information on individual artists, some of whom, like the wonderful Bob Thompson — an African American painter and jazz musician who died of a heroin overdose in 1966 — really deserve to be better known.

His «negative Pollockism,» as he called it, appeared to many artists and critics like a vicious parody, while his titles included a puzzling array of references: obscure New York bars, jazz songs, Brooklyn tenement buildings, and Nazi propaganda.

Slogans like «Black Is Beautiful» and «Black Power,» as well as jazz and soul music, became the soundtrack for works by painter Murry DePillars, mixed - media artist Ben Jones, and muralist Dana Chandler.

In their book, «A History of African - American Artists» (Random House, 1992), Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson devoted a chapter to Mr. Wilson, ranking him as a significant artist and citing works like «Second Genesis» and «Jazz Musicians,» both at schools in Baltimore, where he was born.

His stylized, graphic black - and - white song - and - dance images are direct heirs to the jitterbug, R&B, jazz, ragtime and music hall themes used by artists like Archibald John Motley Jr. (1891 - 1981) and William H. Johnson (1901 - 1970).

To look at the artist's work from those years now (not on view at Mnuchin) is a bit like watching a jazz musician mastering the scales, fine - tuning himself and his instrument, preparing to receive the transmissions of higher dimensions.

Although Gioni refers to visual musicality, this descriptor is explored in detail via Storr's characterization of Ofili as an artist who applies acrylics, oils, and resins to surfaces like a virtuoso musician, orchestrating compositions with the equivalent rhapsodic flair of a jazz legend.

It is interesting that people like Jackson Pollock and other abstract artists said they listened to jazz.

It feels edgy and improvisational, yet assured — just like the bebop jazz that Goldberg and other artists loved.

With spaces like the Brockman Gallery, which showed artists like Betye Saar, David Hammons, and John Outterbridge in the early days of their careers and the heady days of the Black Arts Movement, and the jazz and poetry crucible The World Stage, Leimert Park has been at the heart of Black Arts and culture in LA since the «70s.

Already intrigued by the thought of «turn by turn mark making,» I was interested to learn from gallery owner Damien Roman that the two artists like to listen to jazz as they volley the compositional shuttlecock with paint, pencil or layers upon layers of printed images transferred using tissue - like paper rubbed onto the wooden surface.

Like a jazz musician, Radcliffe Bailey's approach to art is «improvisational and intuitive,» as Carol Thompson points out in an informative essay on «Memory as Medicine,» the 20 - year survey of the artist's work organized last year by the High Museum in Atlanta.

In the «age of anxiety» surrounding the Second World War and the years of free jazz and Beat poetry, artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning broke from accepted conventions to unleash a new confidence in painting.

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).

The world - famous concert venue is known for its nightly lineup of classic and up - and - coming jazz, country, folk, bluegrass and R&B artists in an intimate setting, and has welcomed musicians like Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Esperanza Spalding and still offers a mix of legends and rising stars in an intimate setting.

Back in high school, I could write an essay on the artist and their message and their technique and their muse and all that jazz like nobody's business.