Sentences with phrase «jazz band in»

Twins Seven - Seven and jazz band in 1971, Oshogbo, Nigeria.

The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall; Sandra Bernhard's «Sandyland»; Woody Allen's jazz band in Los Angeles; the release of Joseph Gordon - Levitt's «Don Jon» on DVD; and «Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love» on PBS» «American Masters» are what we're looking forward to in the...

At first, the setting is prohibition - era Chicago (right as the Great Depression was beginning to sink in), where Joe and Jerry play as part of a small jazz band in a speakeasy run out of a funeral parlor by criminal kingpin Spats Colombo (George Raft).

WILD MAN BLUES When Woody Allen toured Europe with his New Orleans - style jazz band in 1996, Oscar - winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple («Harlan County USA») hitched a ride and made this entertaining, affectionate documentary.

Rather his pressing concern is to find a new recruit for the parliamentary jazz band in which he plays the trumpet.

If you're in Chicago, many of the big museums have cocktail hours with jazz bands in the summer.

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It's said that in jazz bands, the band is only as good as the worst player; no matter how great some members may be, everyone hears the worst player.

He is an avid jazz fan and musician in the band My Cousin Tone».

Such stellar moments from childhood were like being held in your uncle's lap while a jazz band played somewhere 1,500 miles away.

The swing revival did have the potential to make a widespread impact, as its lasting legacy in giving ball - room dancing a boost attests, but it was a far more ambitious idea than those other revivals, since for it to really work you needed a) jazz - musician participation, b) bigger bands, and perhaps even c) supper - club like venues.

And sometimes — if you so happen to land in a place that knows how to party — a three - piece band playing Dixieland jazz sets up shop outside the sanctuary to fete you as you make your way to the fellowship hall to greet hundreds of people who love you because you have loved them so very, very well.

I still remember the Christmas when my oldest, then in junior high jazz band, celebrated the silver trumpet his teacher had painstakingly picked out, within our budget, to replace the rental one.

«Jazz in the Cellar» will feature live bands playing contemporary Jazz, R&B and a touch of blues.

In the shadow of old Nassau Hall a jazz band resonates.

Musicians perform in a variety of ensembles ranging from ceremonial band to jazz band to small ensembles, playing all styles of music.

Ariana Jones is a bass player in the Buffalo Public Schools All City Jazz Ensemble, a band Fried put together decades ago.

One of his best known works is «Introducing Hedzolleh Soundz,» the definitive afro - jazz album released in 1973 with the Hedzolleh Soundz band.

As a jazz band played in the landscaped gardens of the # 6 million property, Mr Freud, who was wearing leather trousers, greeted guests, including Education Secretary Michael Gove and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey.

She has participated in Symphonic, Pep, and Jazz Bands, and in various choruses and choirs including Senior Chorus and the Show Choir.

SUN AUGUST 13 AT 6:00 PM — TUDOR PARK — LADY AND THE VAMPS (Pop / Rock cover band) @ Tudor Park, 133rd Avenue between 81st and 82nd Streets in Ozone Park Lady and the Vamps is a band that covers a range of genres from jazz standards like «Cheek to Cheek» to chart topping hits like «All About That Bass» The band has an impressive and unique sound and its members pride themselves on their technical abilities, improvisational skills, and musical versatility.

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.

It was a shopping experience for all the senses — a live jazz band playing in the store, the scents of candles, soaps, and all things lovely, beautiful merchandise displayed artfully, -LSB-...]

In the middle of the film, Keith (John Legend) explains to Seb, who is a ~ serious musician ~ grudgingly playing for»80s cover bands to make a buck, why being obsessed with classic, 20th - century jazz is holding him back as an artist.

When we first arrived, we walked in to the main room, there was a jazz band playing and a couple of bars.

I am a vocalist, singing with a band, specializing in r & b, jazz, blues & gospel.

The band are crack musicians, can change course faster than birds in the sky, melding g - force time signature changes with jazz - like precision.

It's open every day from 4 p.m. to 2 p.m., hosts jazz bands and other local talent, and has some of the best handcrafted cocktails in the city.

KKJZ FM offers the full spectrum of jazz music, from bop to cool, Latin to straight - ahead, swing to big band, and most everything in between.

If you consider yourself a bassist professional, aspiring, or the 11 year old in 6th grade jazz band brave enough to try learn EVERY note of this album.

In his first semester at the school, Andrew is quickly noticed by the school's top teacher, Mr. Fletcher, who is also the conductor of Schaffer's most important group — the competition jazz band.

The jazz music performed by the band (which, in some ways, is a character in the story) is tremendous.

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

But does all the referencing and homage — and not just to Demy, but also to Golden Age Tinseltown productions like An American in Paris, jazz greats like Miles Davis, and even (in the film's funniest scene) the English new - wave band A Flock of Seagulls — add up to much of anything original?

A young man named Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) is practicing late at night at his New York music school, one of the best in the country, when his drumming catches the ear of the infamous Mr. Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the most important teacher at the school and the conductor for its most important jazz band.

Sebastian has to choose between his dreams of opening a club featuring serious jazz or earning good money to play mainstream pap in a popular band; between his touring and Mia's newfound commitment to writing — a direction he encouraged — the very geography of their work threatens to undo the passion they share.

Wolfe drags the always dignified Perkins to a late night jazz club, and with the help of the band, displays in song how Wolfe's brain kicks into writing mode.

The jazz band pieces, especially the title song «Whiplash,» give the film a brittle edge; these tunes aren't played to express musical joy, they are designed to showcase musical precision, and the percussion - heavy element puts the film on edge as successfully as the drum solos in Birdman define the nervous tension of that film.

After a bit of interaction with the band where he admonishes them for playing loud jazz over his explanation of jazz, Gosling is joined by Emma Stone, who initially seems to be chastising him for his delusional belief in his own jazz savior - hood until it's revealed that she actually believes the two of them saved jazz together.

Though Marsalis» score is available on CD, the mix of blues, big band, and Dixieland jazz are sampled in a short medley that's complimented by stills from the recording session.

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.

Hawks and ace writing team Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's sparkling gangster romantic comedy, with Missy Stanwyck as a red hot jazz mama (in Gene Krupa's swing band, no less).

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

November 3, 2017 • Jazz Night in America takes you to Dizzy's Club Coca - Cola, where the hard - bop drummer celebrated his debut as a band leader and talked about fond memories and favorite sessions.

In a story that would be kind of wacky and fun if it didn't concern two awful people, The Hollywood Reporter says that Woody Allen was supposed to play clarinet with his jazz band at the wedding of former Amazon Studios head Roy Price before the allegations about him being a harassing creep came out and his fiancée...

One night as he's drilling alone in a practice room, Andrew attracts the attention of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the much - feared conductor of the school's elite studio jazz band.

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

A five - part miniseries from Britain about an African American jazz band making its mark in pre-World War II Britain, performing for London aristocrats.

While the story in Whiplash seems rather straightforward at first - a young musical prodigy is noticed by a prestigious jazz band teacher, who brings him in to improve and hone him - it doesn't take long for things to start twisting and turning.

We should have jazz ensembles in our middle schools and blues bands in our high schools.

But teachers, administrators, and literacy coaches from around the country danced to a roving jazz band and joined in Mardi Gras - style revelry at the opening of the second annual national Reading First conference here late last month.