Sentences with phrase «jazz piano»

He plays jazz piano, thinks acting is a «magical, mystical journey» — and couldn't care less about the money.

She attended Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, and won Best Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).

Cassavetes was just 30 when he took the gig as a Greenwich Village shamus with a penchant for jazz piano.

Tigran Hamasyan merges ancient Armenian sacred music with jazz piano.

The film is also aurally ravishing; in his fourth project with the director, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood composes a score that encompasses everything from an opening blast of cochlea - rattling drone to silkiest jazz piano.

«I became specifically interested in composing when I was in high school, taking jazz piano and improvisation lessons.

It's a kind of grainy pointillism, and as the artist Jennie C. Jones notes in a brief catalog essay, a sort of visual music comparable to the minimalist jazz piano of Ahmad Jamal.

The best I experienced, of any conference, was actually introduced by Hilde Schwab, and featured a moderator who played jazz piano for the group in order to explain how creative flow interacts with learned knowledge.

Audrey is picked up by a talent scout for her gifts in jazz piano and joins the house band at Harlem's Apollo theatre at the age of 17, but Caroline finds it much harder to sever her ties to Mt. Sterling, and a bitter divide is cut between them as they struggle for a place in the world.

I don't know if the one in Toronto has jazz piano.

I once asked a jazz piano great, which scale he had used in a particular section of a piece he played called «Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.»

He plays jazz piano and is a member of the Musicians» Union.

Michael Barton has high - functioning autism, studies physics at the University of Surrey, UK, plays jazz piano and gives talks on the positive aspects of autism.

At Lexington High School, Noah captains the school's math team and plays jazz piano.

He's no more polite the next time they meet; Mia's moved by hearing him play jazz piano, but he rebuffs her when she tries to compliment him, since playing his own music, rather than Christmas carols, just got him fired from the gig.

Unfortunately, Gosling will be overlooked, though the fact that he spent four months learning to play jazz piano should put him over the top in the balloting.

Stitching these sense memories together are jazz piano - backed montages of a disappointed Jake stumbling around their earlier haunts as though in a Resnais - like time loop.

Chiwetel Ejiofor loses himself so completely as Solomon Northup in «12 Years a Slave» that seeing him in a tuxedo playing jazz piano — on the six - part miniseries «Dancing on the Edge» — is like falling into an alternate reality.

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.

You can all but forget about the delicacy of a jazz piano, the subtlety of a violin solo, or listening to a podcast at anything below shouting volume in the JCW's loud cabin.

Jazz piano, cymbals, and horns were among our favorites in that saccharine top side, but even indie rock tracks like Father John Misty's When You're Smiling and Astride Me are offered in exquisite detail and with grand organic flavor, from the strings and guitar to the snare.

For the past three years, I have worked as a jazz piano teacher and have had the opportunity to teach improvisation and jazz theory to students between the ages of five and sixteen.