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«And being able to showcase world famous jazz musicians on Kaanapali Beach — voted one of the best beaches in the world by Trip Advisor — creates a truly exceptional experience.»

Not exact matches

Research on jazz musicians and rappers who were improvising creative work on the spot showed that when they enter that coveted flow state of creativity, their brains were exhibiting these signs.

We meet at least three pretty despicable bohemian persons, Davis's ex-lover Jean, the club owner, and the famous folk impresario Bud Grossman; and on a road - trip Davis takes to Chicago, we meet two decidedly monstrous ones, an incommunicative hoody young beat - poet, and a demonically arrogant elder jazz musician addicted to heroin.

He says the preacher is like a jazz musician who improvises on a theme.

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.

Enjoy live jazz and the sultry sounds of local New Orleans musicians while sipping on a classic cocktail in the Polo Club Lounge.

The wicked transsexual Amanda Lepore... DreamWorks» Jeff Katzenberg took notes at Seattle's recent rehearsal of the coming B'way show «Shrek the Musical»... Frances McDormand, who plays a gym owner in «Burn After Reading,» ended up with the Gym Source's stationary bike in her personal trailer... Jamie Foxx, a musician in his gizzard, soaked up a night of jazz in a Hollywood gin mill... And Matt Dillon soaked up Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks at Club Cache on West 46th... From David Paterson the Gov., who used to be Lt. Gov.: «The job of Lieutenant Governor is to wake up and call the Governor's Mansion at 6:30 am.

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.

«The reason could be due to the different demands these two styles pose on the musicians — be it to skilfully interpret a classical piece or to creatively improvise in jazz.

Stephen K. Hiltner is a botanist and jazz musician, who has served on various advisory commissions and has worked to promote sustainability in Princeton for the past fifteen years.

Exercising some terrible mock trumpet - playing, Rourke stars as washed - up jazz musician Nate Poole, who finds himself on the wrong side of a grudge with gangster Happy Shannon (Murray).

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.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&rajazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raJazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raJazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raJazz.»

Another family drama, in this case based on a true story, Jeff Preiss's Low Down is sensitively acted by Elle Fanning as a daughter devoted to her drug - addicted, jazz - musician dad, and John Hawkes as the father who adores her but can't kick his habit.

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.

John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.

October 27, 2017 • Join Jazz Night in America on a visit to Clarksdale, Miss., where struggling musicians are reaping the benefits of blues tourism.

March 16, 2018 • No jazz musician has ever been heard more on public radio than the late Marian McPartland.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling make for a terrific pair of leads: she's an aspiring actress who works at a coffee shop on the Warner Bros. studio lot, he's a jazz musician reduced to playing Christmas piano in a restaurant.

As free jazz musician Ornette Coleman once said, «It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.»

Students will learn to identify musical styles and musicians associated with Harlem, focusing on jazz

Gavin - a former jazz musician, a reluctant broker of foreclosed properties, obsessed with film noir and private detectives, begins his own private investigation in an effort to track down Anna and their apparent daughter who have been on the run all these years from a drug dealer from whom Anna stole $ 121,000.

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.

Jonah Winter's picture book biography of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie is a good example of a story that is lighter on the facts than some might like; yet, it received six starred reviews and connects with kids in a special way.

Jazz musicians are known for working together to create new and exciting riffs or new variations on familiar themes.

He carries that legacy on at the Orania, where Berlin - based talents, from jazz musicians to poets, come in to perform, creating a welcoming, creative space for locals as well as guests.

Head to The Big Easy for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to celebrate a cultural feast where thousands of musicians, food vendors and crafts artists welcome over 400,000 visitors to showcase unforgettable music on multiple stages, delicious Louisiana cuisine, and unique arts and crafts from around the world.

Head to Todos Santos Plaza on Thursday nights the Farmers» Market and free music concerts in the Park with a great line - up of wonderful Bay Area musicians playing Salsa, jazz, zydeco, blues and more.

4 pm - JAZZY SUNSET CRUISE: Soak up the sunset on our Double Decker catamaran complete with open bar, canapés, and live jazz musician.

Festival performances offer a rare match up of on and off island talent performing with guest artists, backed by ensembles of local and visiting jazz musicians.

Dato will be perfect if you are planning on visiting Vitoria tourist attractions or want to attend its world - wide famous Jazz Festival that takes part every year in July, and that has brought popular musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie or Miles Davis to Vitoria.

Jazz musicians have a list of standards, great tunes on which they improvise, hearing (playing) them as they haven't been interpreted before.

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.

He improvised on them like a jazz musician plays with different tunes.

Instead, he went on to become a jazz musician and a painter, inserting images of African Americans in scenes where he thought they should — and knew they did — exist.

Her recently completed film project, HORACE TAPSCOTT: MUSICAL GRIOT is a documentary on musical genius, community activist and mentor to a generation of accomplished jazz musicians, Horace Tapscott.

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-...]

They married in 1954 and shared a building on Fillmore Street which was a hang out for other artists, writers and jazz musicians.

Instead it is an observation on compositional method by the underground jazz musician Joe McPhee, a longtime influence on the painter.

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.

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Lester Young on saxophone with other jazz musicians during jam session at Gjon Mili's studio, NY, 1943 Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1943 13 3/8 X 10 3/4 inches

Giving visual expression to wordplay, Arceneaux's Borrowed Sun (Critical Juxtaposition Test)(2004) places a pencil - drawn portrait of jazz musician Sun Ra on par with sketched representations of Sol LeWitt and Galileo, three legendary creators linked by cosmic connotations.

As the story goes, Mehretu was paid visits while working there by her friend Jason Moran, a decorated jazz musician who would hang out on the balcony and play electric piano while she painted.

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.

The Bearden apartment on West 131st Street in Harlem was a frequent gathering place for such intellectuals as W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Countee Cullen, as well as artists Aaron Douglas and Charles Alston, and jazz musicians Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Andy Razaf.

While in the army in WW2, he concentrated on his other artistic talents as poet and jazz musician (alto - and tenorsax, piano); member of the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, touring in England.

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.