Sentences with phrase «jazz musicians such»

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Jeff Barnhart, one of the musicians who performed in the service at Spring Glen, described the basic shape of a jazz funeral as follows: «They (the performers) would play an old hymn such as «Just a Closer Walk with Thee» in the procession to the graveside.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

Where non-specialists tend to think that it should not be too challenging for a professional musician to switch between styles of music, such as jazz and classical, it is actually not as easy as one would assume, even for people with decades of experience.

Such statistical properties have been found in networks of movie actors, jazz musicians, and even scientific collaborators.

Watching the movie feels as if you've sat down in someone's living room to hear tales of other legendary jazz musicians, such as Count Basie or Miles Davis.

An accomplished jazz musician and connoisseur of America's musical art form well beyond his other gigs of directing and acting, Clint Eastwood's scores have always been about memorable thematic simplicity, memorable melodies that other artists have helped him expound upon in such scores as «Unforgiven» and «Flags of Our Fathers.»

Or, teaching is more like playing jazz piano: you learn concepts, practice reactions, by learning to hear the chords, and then perform these responses spontaneously, interacting with the other musicians in such a way that you play with honest feeling in order to make «music» together.

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.

Other musicians, such as the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Colin Hunter and Joe Sealy's Quartet, Ramon Vazquez Trio with Edmar Colon and Danny Diaz, Ignacio Berroa's Quartet with special guest Giovanni Hidalgo, and Big Band Conservatory of Santo Domingo, along with many more, will also be performing.

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.

Davis, a longtime fan of jazz and swing music, drew inspiration from the genres and was even friends with famous musicians, such as Duke Ellington.

Born and raised in New Orleans where his father was a jazz musician, William Pajaud has created work that spans more than fifty years and covers such diverse topics as traditional New Orleans Jazz Funerals, Negro Spirituals, landscapes of Thailand, and the Old Testamjazz musician, William Pajaud has created work that spans more than fifty years and covers such diverse topics as traditional New Orleans Jazz Funerals, Negro Spirituals, landscapes of Thailand, and the Old TestamJazz Funerals, Negro Spirituals, landscapes of Thailand, and the Old Testament.

Saint Phalle chose prominent and inspiring members of the African American community related to sports or music to highlight in the Black Heroes series, such as jazz musicians Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, performer Josephine Baker, and athletes Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Tony Gwynn.

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.

Basquiat frequently used crown images in his work, sometimes invoking the signature motif atop anonymous figures, but more often utilizing it symbolically to «crown» his heroes — legends such as Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Sugar Ray Robinson and a number of jazz musicians.

Yet, Shepherd's «dieties» — Alice Coltrane (musician, wife of legendary John Coltrane), Sun Ra (American jazz musician), Frantz Fanon (revolutionary author from Martinique who was immensely influential in the field of post-colonial studies), and Octavia Butler (American science fiction author)-- are a far cry from the (Caucasian) sitters generally encountered in such traditional portraiture: Christ, Virgin Mary, and various saints, for instance.

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.

Gaines cites musician / artist John Cage as a significant influence, and indirectly gives a nod to jazz drummers, such as Art Blakey and Elvin Jones.

Like many games of this genre (even Yooka - Laylee), the story eventually involves wacky animal characters and creatures such as a skeletal jazz musician (justified by the zombie dust) and an aged female scientist who is a turtle (I have no idea about that one).