Sentences with phrase «jazz musician whose»

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Wakefield celebrates this community in New York in the «50s, which began as an essay on Baldwin, at whose Village apartment Wakefield met jazz musicians, authors and intellectuals.

He's a musician whose work is steeped in jazz, hip - hop, the blues, and electronic music.

November 17, 2017 • In this radio episode, Jazz Night in America takes you to a tribute concert honoring the late musician, whose soulful sound was more than just «smooth.»

Davis just barely makes it, after having to carpool with a near - mute beatnik poet Johnny Five (Garrett Hedlund) and an elitist, loquacious jazz musician Roland Turner (John Goodman), whose vices and embittered personality encapsulate the sad future that their shared profession may hold in store for Davis.

A once - popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life... A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him... A struggling singer - songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he's only just met... A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career... A young cellist whose tutor promises to «unwrap» his talent... Passion or necessity — or the often uneasy combination of the two — determines the place of music in each of these lives.

The Wein Prize, one of the most significant awards given to individual artists in the United States today, was established in 2006 by jazz impresario, musician and philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife, a long - time Trustee of the Studio Museum and a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art and culture.

It is occasioned in part by the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a still - flourishing organization of Chicago musicians whose interdisciplinary explorations expanded the boundariesMusicians (AACM), a still - flourishing organization of Chicago musicians whose interdisciplinary explorations expanded the boundariesmusicians whose interdisciplinary explorations expanded the boundaries of jazz.

Afrofuturism first took hold in the mid-1950s with the musician Sun - Ra, whose music blended science fiction, mysticism, African culture and jazz fusion.

Ryman, whose original goal was to be a jazz musician, has said that he wants his painting to be «an experience... of enlightenment.