Sentences with phrase «jazz scenes»

Miami has some of America's best nightlife credentials, and its music venues span arenas to local Latin and jazz scenes.

For ten years she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble, and has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist and with players on the American and international jazz scenes.

The exhibition also features vibrant jazz scenes, images of daily life and nation building, along with iconic works that touch on deep social issues.

Winners came from all of the UK's vibrant jazz scenes.

Museums, Broadway and the New York jazz scene are some of my favorite past times.

You don't need to be involved in the jazz scene or have an understanding of drumming for the movie's core theme to connect; music is simply the vessel to drive home one of the most emotional and awe - inspiring films of the past decade.

May 12, 2017 • Players like Moses Boyd, Shabaka Hutchings and Sarathy Korwar drive London's jazz scene forward with sounds from around the world.

«Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (Unrated) Bittersweet bio-pic revisits the rise and fall of Jackie Paris (1924 - 2004), a once - promising singer who burst on the postwar jazz scene to win the Downbeat Critics Poll as the Best New Male Vocalist in 1953 only to labor in obscurity for most of his career following that explosive debut.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Set in 1962 during the height of the Los Angeles jazz scene, «The Spoils Before Dying» follows Rock (Michael Kenneth Williams) as he becomes the Prime Suspect in the double murder of singer and his occasional lover Fresno Foxglove (Maya Rudolph) who is found dead in a car with another man.

Larenz Tate («Rescue Me») will star in and produce «Sylvie's Love»,» which is set in NYC's late -»50s / early -»60s jazz scene.

In the evening, check out Chicago's famous jazz scene, or take in a show at Second City, where many Saturday Night Live stars got their starts in improv comedy.

An honors graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Dmitri Matheny vaulted onto the jazz scene in the 1990s as the protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer.

Our hotel's downtown address places you minutes from exciting big - name music and sporting events at the BOK Center and the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, but also next door to quaint, historic neighborhoods, outdoor markets and the local jazz scene.

Kansas City, Missouri, is well known for its delicious barbecue, its lively jazz scene, and the beautiful fountains all over the city.

With the burgeoning group of Beat writers, Abstract Expressionist painters and jazz scene musicians, the 1950s and early 1960s were an explosive time period for Tworkov and his New York School colleagues.

While the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, Chicago painter Archibald Motley was documenting the jazz scene in the Windy City.

The languages of royalty and heroism were handed down from the 1920s jazz scene — an important source of inspiration — where musicians would play outside clubs, competing to draw the biggest crowd.

He soon found New York's jazz scene to be a far more compelling environment, and he began skipping classes to frequent the Harlem jazz clubs near campus.

On View June 22 - October 14, 2012 at the New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA — Ralston Crawford and Jazz explores the profound impact of New Orleans» culture, and in particular the city's jazz scene, on artist Ralston Crawford's artistic output in the years after World War II - a significant but lesser known body of... Read More

Outside of class, he explores the city of Chicago, drawing the people and places he encounters, and finds a side job sketching live music performances in Chicago's jazz scene.

They did not regard themselves as being a fixed group and rejected all shared definitions of their art — but what all of their approaches had in common was the passion, the playfulness and the scurrility of their works, which could be described using the term «funky», coined in the Jazz scene in the 1920s.

The Wall Street Journal reviewed composer Matthew Mitchell's (2012) new jazz album A Pouting Grimace, writing that Mitchell «makes some of the most interesting and complex music on the New York jazz scene.»

Writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsburg were leading figures in American literature during this time while Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Thelonious Monk were predominant on the entertainment and jazz scene in the circles frequented by Rosenquist.

About Blog The Canberra Jazz (CJ) blog offers news and reviews of local jazz events, and a record the local jazz scene through pics of performing artists in their habitat.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA About Blog Yoko Miwa has spent the past decade honing one of the most musical trio sounds on the jazz scene.

About Blog Locavore Jazz is a one - stop site for the Durham - Raleigh - Chapel Hill jazz scene especially when existing jazz calendars & list serves don't do the trick: Click links below to local jazz players.

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One exciting item at the store is the release of the RELEVANT edition of Blue Like Jazz: The Movie, featuring exclusive behind - the - scenes bonus content and interviews produced by our team.

Familiar to many Rosendalers as a longtime co-organizer of the Rosendale Street Festival as well as for his busy schedule of gigs — many of them fundraisers — with the leading lights of the region's jazz and rock scenes, Kniceley drew 59 votes to 53 for recently retired Town of Rosendale highway superintendent Carl Hornbeck and 19 for former court clerk Lisa Dockery.

Since the beginning of time, a cup of black coffee has done more to set the scene than any moody jazz soundtrack ever could.

I have a lot of fun things in the works but all of that behind the scenes jazz has been exhausting.

From jazz clubs to comedy clubs, the downtown scene has many attractions and distractions to make long hours seem short.

Chicago's blues, soul and jazz are legendary, but it's also the birthplace of house music and has a booming indie scene.

Not into the club scene anymore, I enjoy a laid back setting such as a grown folk lounge, jazz or comedy show.

In an exclusive video interview for the Online Dating Minute, I spoke with Grant Hosford, Senior Director at Jazzed, who shared a behind the scenes look at the dating site, including what inspired eHarmony to create a social dating site, as well as describing some of their features.

The production telegraphs a lot by bathing pre-war college and jazz club scenes in a honeyed light that drips with nostalgia, while wartime and post-war scenes are shot in a drab bluish - gray.

The main theme running through «Jimmy's Hall» is established in the credits, which feature Depression - era archival footage of New York City set to classic jazz; it's here that Gralton spent a decade enjoying the cultural scene before returning to his home town to share it with curious locals.

These early scenes have a Parisian vibrancy about them that is enhanced by a rattling jazz score.

Extras: Additional scenes not aired on PBS from «A Ballet In Sneakers: Jerome Robbins and Opus Jazz» directed by Matt Wolf and Anna Farrell, Jerome Robbins» Ballets: USA - a documentary commissioned by the State Department in 1958, Essay by John Lithgow

1 «Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story» (Todd Haynes, 1987) 2 «Don't Look Back» (DA Pennebaker, 1967)-- Bob Dylan 3 «Gim me Shelter» (David Maysles / Albert Maysles / Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)-- Rolling Stones 4 «24 Hour Party People» (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)-- Manchester scene 5 «Topsy - Turvy» (Mike Leigh, 1999)-- Gilbert and Sullivan 6 «Monterey Pop» (DA Pennebaker, 1968)-- concert 7 «Be Here to Love Me» (Margaret Brown, 2004)-- Townes Van Zandt 8 «Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould» (Francois Girard, 1993)-- Glenn Gould 9 «Cocksucker Blues» (Robert Frank, 1972)-- Rolling Stones 10 «Bird» (Clint Eastwood, 1988)-- Charlie Parker 11 «The Last Waltz» (Martin Scorsese, 1978)-- The Band & Friends farewell concert 12 «Rude Boy» (Jack Hazan, David Mingay, 1980)-- The Clash 13 «Scott Walker: 30 Century Man» (Stephen Kijak, 2006)-- Scott Walker 14 «Bound for Glory» (Hal Ashby, 1976)-- Woody Guthrie 15 «The Decline of Western Civilization Parts I & II» (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, 1988)-- LA punk;»80s metal & hair bands 16 «The Devil and Daniel Johnston» (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)-- Daniel Johnston 17 «Sweet Dreams» (Karel Reisz, 1982)-- Patsy Cline 18 «Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor» (Don McGlynn, 1982)-- Art Pepper 19 «Elgar» (Ken Russell, 1962)-- Edward Elgar 20 «Rust Never Sleeps» (Neil Young, 1979)-- Neil Young 21 «The Future is Unwritten» (Julien Temple, 2006)-- Joe Strummer 22 «DiG!»

For the most part, the films showcased Dern as a character actor who specialized in psychopaths and misfits, and a guy who knew how to jazz up a scene with an arsenal of quirks that became known as Dernsies.

But does all the referencing and homage — and not just to Demy, but also to Golden Age Tinseltown productions like An American in Paris, jazz greats like Miles Davis, and even (in the film's funniest scene) the English new - wave band A Flock of Seagulls — add up to much of anything original?

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.»

The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first feature with a dialogue scene, but does that make it a classic?

Clooney's masterful opening scene descends upon a fancy dress dinner, complete with champagne and photographers, but it is presented in complete silence — save for a mournful jazz tune.

Pinto's best - known work is City of God, and the composer describes his own musical contribution: a terrifying scene set in a jazz club, in which we get a rare sense of Vincent's past after watching him hunt down victims on his hit list.

Moore's work is evident in both of these behind - the - scenes looks at the making of La La Land, including the glorious waltz sequence that is part of the film's seven - minute epilogue and the jazz whip sequence featured in a split screen with Emma Stone's dancing and Ryan Gosling's piano riffs.

Whiplash, the overwhelmingly riveting second feature from young (born 1985) writer / director Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) opens with a scene of an aspiring jazz drummer, Andrew — played with searing commitment by rising star Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now)-- rehearsing in an empty studio space.

Hosted by Finnish dancer / actress Taina Elg, there's a nice flurry of behind - the - scenes stills, and Elg offers several personal anecdotes on Kelly (then involved in a divorce), Cukor, adapting from ballet to jazz dancing under task master Jack Cole, and the tight camaraderie of the female cast.

As scene - setters go, «All That Jazz» brings us up to speed with one single shot, when Roxie (Renee Zellweger) fantasises momentarily about being on stage in place of nightclub star Velma (Catherine Zeta - Jones).