Sentences with phrase «jazz saxophonists in»

[1][2] From 1940 — 45 he worked as a jazz saxophonist in New York City, changing his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 after being introduced as «Larry Rivers and the Mudcats» at a local pub.

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Join New York Times bestselling author and distinguished scholar Carole Boston Weatherford in this celebration of the poetry of music and musicians — from North Carolina — born jazz saxophonist John Coltrane to legendary entertainer and activist Lena Horne. ncmuseumofhistory.org / events

On the banks of the Charles, everyone is invited to join in singing familiar folk songs with along with jazz saxophonist Stan Strickland.

Influential jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has put his home in Hollywood Hills West on the market for $ 3.495 million.

Appreciate the Asian representation for the latter, really, but there are less baffling descriptors for hunky people out there, even if said hunk in question is a dumpster diver by day, former slow - jazz saxophonist by night and Clare's every day father (Ryan Phillippe, «The Lincoln Lawyer»).

December 28, 2017 • This episode focuses on a highlight of the saxophonist's banner year: the time he spent as artist in residence at the Detroit Jazz Festival.

Anderson added that the double agent played by Owen Wilson in the film was conceived as a blend of the Beach Boys» Dennis Wilson and Zoot, the burnt - out jazz saxophonist from The Muppets.

The atmosphere is convivial and lively, thanks in part to an accompanying blast of free jazz from legendary saxophonist Idris Ackamoor — one in a number of surprising soundtrack cues, ranging from deep funk to blues, that pockmark the piano - driven score by composer David Shire.

If you think a remote tropical beach in Costa Rica is a funny place to hear jazz, famous jazz saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen has words for you: «Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.&rajazz, famous jazz saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen has words for you: «Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.&rajazz saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen has words for you: «Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.&raJazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.»

Grammy award - winning jazz saxophonist Mark Gross joined Gilliard in hosting the event.

He later changed his name to Larry Rivers, in the early 1940s, while playing as a Jazz saxophonist with the group «Larry Rivers and the Mudcats».

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.

In Douglas's installation, four musicians interpret Spirits Rejoice (1965), one of the seminal compositions of 1960s free jazz, by the iconoclastic American saxophonist and bandleader Albert Ayler.

This significant and dynamic collage of a jazz saxophonist was made in the spring of what became the last full year of Bearden's life.

After serving in the Army, he went to New York intending to be a jazz saxophonist, studying with Lennie Tristano.

In a July 30 online ArtsJournal feature, ListenGood: Focus on New Orleans Jazz and other sounds, a weblog entitled, lobstercrackers social aid & pleasure club, Haystack earned a mention as the blogger sang the praises of the 8th annual Deer Isle Jazz Festival, which included Haystack visiting artist, New Orleans saxophonist and Big Chief, Donald Harrison.

The musical reference was apt: she eloped at the age of 17 with a jazz pianist, became the lover of a saxophonist - turned - painter, married (secondly) an eccentric dancer, and inspired several poets to rhapsodise about her in verse.

John Ellis, 18th Street Arts Center «s current Make Jazz Fellow, tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, will present a master class in conjunction with Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg in 1923, Rivers studied music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music and initially pursued a career as a jazz saxophonist, playing regularly in New York City nightclubs.

Here on BBC Arts we take an in - depth look at the influence of abstract art on modern design with renowned designer Peter Saville; saxophonist Soweto Kinch explores how jazz embraced abstract through its album cover iconography; Alastair Sooke talks technique as he gets inside the world of abstract master Jackson Pollock, finding out just how challenging it is to create one of his famous drip paintings.

As a Jazz lover, I was in heaven lying back in my chair, watching an off - the - wall film of two women having a conversation inside a fridge about Jazz, while behind my head vinyl played a conversation about saxophonist Ornette Coleman and Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.

Inspired by natural landscape of New Orleans, the exhibition's title also alludes to the city's cultural landscape as a creative force — saxophonist Archie Shepp described jazz as a triumph of the human spirit, a lily that grows «in spite of the swamp.»

Saxophonist Marshall Allen (2012) led and performed with the celebrated jazz group Sun Ra Arkestra during the 2016 Vision Festival in New York.

Music has always been a great influence on Mohr, a saxophonist as well as an artist, regularly playing in jazz and rock bands.

A discussion between legendary jazz saxophonist Evan Parker and artist and musician David Ryan, exploring the connections between free improvisation in jazz and the Abstract Expressionism movement.

But Sonny Rollins, by anyone's estimate the dean of jazz tenor saxophonists, did a CD a decade ago that included a tune «Global Warming» that my group played in 2000 at a Danish - sponsored UN event on climate in Copenhagen, to the obvious pleasure of former minister Svend Auken and his staff.

Alexander, a theoretical cosmologist, is also a saxophonist who has written about the connections between the Universe and music in his book, The Jazz of Physics.