Sentences with phrase «jazz musicians working»

We're watching «Some Like It Hot» and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are playing Joe and Jerry: two talented but threadbare Chicago jazz musicians working in a speak - easy fronted as a funeral parlor.

Jazz musician works in Sacto and SF clubs.

AMY SILLMAN: I think we were engaged in mutual form of improvisation, which is really probably how jazz musicians work, or something.

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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.

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.

Your own soul will respond to the sweet, sultry magic of the best musicians working in the city that gave the world jazz.

Other blacks, some of them musicians who worked jazz up from the South, would feel the touch of fame, or once in a while have the thought that their names meant something to people outside their own.

Many Ph.D. recipients, however, «work in industry and consulting, others choose jobs that suit personal needs, and others decide they do not like research and prefer to return to being a jazz musician.

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.

Even as he is a professional jazz musician, software developer, and pujari at the Sankaṭ Mochan Hanumān Temple, he aims to inspire creativity, spread happiness, and continually work for the cultivation of peace.

Not only is it a working church and community centre with a long running programme to help homeless people, but it's also an award winning arts venue that has played host to rock bands, comedians, classical and jazz musicians, and all kinds of live performance.

You organize jazz concerts in Linz and work with jazz musicians from the.

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

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.

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scraps by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to frail the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

The legendary Forest Whitaker has always been a strong fit for historical roles, whether it was his work as jazz musician Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood's «Bird,» his Oscar - winning turn as dictator Idi Amin in «The Last King of Scotland,» or White House butler Eugene Allen in «The Butler.»

By 1954 his exhibitions of photographs of jazz musicians and dancers led to a contract with Globe Photos, followed by work at Harper's Bazaar.

Hawke has been doing great work lately, but his portrayal of doomed jazz musician Chet Baker is one of the best things he's ever done.

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.

Off - kilter talents have often found voice in Woody's work, and the pairing of Sean Penn and a barely known Samantha Morton as, respectively, a 1930s jazz musician and his mute girlfriend is especially winning.

Noonan was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Rosaleen and Tom Noonan, who worked as a dentist and jazz musician respectively.

«Whiplash» is, as they say, a tough sell — I don't know how many adults will be interested in watching the travails of a teen musician, and I don't know how many teens will rush to a film about the work and agony required to play jazz drums.

«Rob was conversant with every historical period and musical style and set about to compose and arrange music for a group of jazz musicians with whom he had worked in the past,» recalls Cardillo.

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

In all aspects of his work, Moran's creative process is informed by one of the essential tenets of jazz: the «set,» in which musicians come together to engage in a collaborative process of improvisation, riffing off of one another to create the musical experience.

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

He changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 as he worked as a jazz musician while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music.

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.

In «Kahlil Joseph: Shadow Play,» his first solo presentation in New York, Joseph debuts Fly Paper (2017), a new film installation that departs from his admiration of the work of Roy DeCarava (1919 — 2009), a photographer and artist known for his images of celebrated jazz musicians and everyday life in Harlem.

Raw, spiritual and always politically charged, Ham - mons's work plays with art the way a jazz musician plays with sound — he gets inside it, bends it, twists it around and keeps it from sitting too still or getting too comfortable.

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.

Works from his recent project Borrowed Sun invoke jazz musician Sun Ra, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, and the Earth's sun, juxtaposing representative elements of each and opening up newfound associations.

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

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.

An avid watcher of children's cartoons, as well as a keen rap musician and jazz enthusiast, his works are often underpinned by a sense of almost electrified reification.

In this way Edwards has likened his work to that of a jazz musician: expressing an emotive notion or thought without being literal.

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.

DeFeo was a pivotal figure in the historic San Francisco community of Beat artists, poets, and jazz musicians at the time, and in 1966 she completed her seminal work The Rose.

The work's title refers to jazz musician Charlie Parker's music piece «Confirmation» (1946).

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.

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.

In all aspects of his work, Moran's creative process is informed by one of the essential tenets of jazz music: the «set,» in which musicians come together to engage in a collaborative process of improvisation, riffing off of one another to create the musical experience.

This show, which takes its name from a 1964 album by the great experimental jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, weaves their work together to create a nuanced picture of the ways in which the spiritual has engaged the artistic imagination.

MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN Presented by Issue Project Room, a venerable experimental musician pays tribute to the seminal avant - jazz composer and musician Ornette Coleman, who died in June, with «Trinity,» a violin solo Mr. Coleman wrote for him, and a series of Mr. Goldstein's own works, including his trademark extended improvisations.

The work will explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Buddy Bolden, the musician credited as the founder of jazz

In New York, Gleizes produced his own works featuring jazz musicians, skyscrapers, luminous advertising signs as well as a number of the city's architectural highlights.

I mentioned that the work made me think of a jazz musician, in that Newman would anticipate himself; he might handle a particular color or format and change it slightly so it would be unexpected.

The triennial, which coincides with New Orleans» tricentennial celebration, brings together 73 artists dealing with issues of colonialism and displacement, with projects including: Odila Donald Odita creating a new work for the Algiers Point ferry, and John Akomfrah debuting a film about jazz musician Buddy Bolden.

The Berlin Senate's cultural affairs department estimates that around 5,000 artists, 1,200 writers, 1,500 bands (pop, rock, and world music), 500 jazz musicians, 103 professional orchestras and music ensembles, 1,500 choirs, 300 theater groups, and 1,000 dancers and / or choreographers of contemporary dance live and work in Berlin.

Her process of coupling microsampled sound pieces spliced from avant - garde black jazz musicians with sculpted or painted visual abstraction that directly references the work of her white, male, Modernist influences elucidates the innovations of her predecessors, while creating a radical, new space for the reading of Modernism.