Sentences with phrase «like jazz musicians»

Like jazz musicians, the artists of the Harlem Renaissance era travelled and interacted, and their art was cosmopolitan, inspired by European modernism as well as the cultural groundswell of black America.

I think the difference is that Bob [Thompson] sort of dressed differently, more like the jazz musicians.

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.

He says the preacher is like a jazz musician who improvises on a theme.

He improvised on them like a jazz musician plays with different tunes.

Much like a jazz musician, he improvises until he finally settles on a successful composition.

Like a jazz musician, Radcliffe Bailey's approach to art is «improvisational and intuitive,» as Carol Thompson points out in an informative essay on «Memory as Medicine,» the 20 - year survey of the artist's work organized last year by the High Museum in Atlanta.

«Many variations can be made from it, much like a jazz musician who takes a basic theme and then does riffs and spontaneous changes over a great song,» says Jeff.

Not exact matches

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.

While he's played large jazz festivals, he and his fellow musicians enjoy intimate musical events in serene settings like Temecula Valley resorts.

Now the two of them, Tweed and Papa, who sits in his chair like a busted old jazz musician, torn around the edges but straight with dignity, spend much time together in Papa's living room.

Your kid will be in good company too with predecessors like famous jazz musician Miles Davis and football player Miles Austin.

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.

The Ship hosts weekly jazz nights and other shows performed by musicians like the Greg Meise Organ Trio, the Soul Preservers, and the Naughty Pines.

The band are crack musicians, can change course faster than birds in the sky, melding g - force time signature changes with jazz - like precision.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Reverential Bio-Pic Pays Tribute to Legendary H.S. Bandleader After graduating from Wiley College (of «The Great Debaters» fame) back in the Thirties, Conrad «Prof» Johnson (1915 - 2008) briefly embarked on a promising career as a jazz musician, joining big band orchestras led by the likes of Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins.

Arguably the first Egyptian mummy score composed by a Frenchman (and a musician best known as a big band jazz artist behind the score to «Borsalino» at that), «The Awakening's» pairing might seem like strange sarcophagus fellows at first.

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.

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.

He looked less like a science teacher and more like one of the jazz musicians Id seen wandering around Greenwich Village.

Troy Andrews is a 29 - year - old bandleader and jazz musician who has performed at the White House, the Grammys and with the likes of U2, Eric Clapton and Prince.

Jonah Winter's picture book biography of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie is a good example of a story that is lighter on the facts than some might like; yet, it received six starred reviews and connects with kids in a special way.

An independent group inspired by the performances of improvisational jazz musicians, its objective was to recreate the process of composing jazz and discover whether painting could, like music, be a collaborative process.

Now, where he learned that is from people like Miles Davis, jazz musicians.

Noland described jazz musicians as «fellow modernists» and linked painting in this period to music: «What was new was the idea that something you painted could be like something you heard.»

In any case, there is no information on individual artists, some of whom, like the wonderful Bob Thompson — an African American painter and jazz musician who died of a heroin overdose in 1966 — really deserve to be better known.

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.

Although Gioni refers to visual musicality, this descriptor is explored in detail via Storr's characterization of Ofili as an artist who applies acrylics, oils, and resins to surfaces like a virtuoso musician, orchestrating compositions with the equivalent rhapsodic flair of a jazz legend.

George Condo approaches painting like a great jazz musician reinterpreting popular melodies to express their own intense feelings.

Ed van der Elsken's shot street scenes, sensuous nudes, jazz musicians, outsiders and bohemian figures like Vali Myers, his most legendary subject and the pivotal character in his pioneering semi-fictional photobook, Love on the Left Bank.

It's a permanent concatenation, like a series of notes akin to a jazz musician's improvisation using scales.

The world - famous concert venue is known for its nightly lineup of classic and up - and - coming jazz, country, folk, bluegrass and R&B artists in an intimate setting, and has welcomed musicians like Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Esperanza Spalding and still offers a mix of legends and rising stars in an intimate setting.

If the Riva Festival is a class - act Jazz musician and the Sonos Play: 5 is a wealthy, Mercedes - driving business man, the Google Max is your best buddy who really likes to party.

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).

Stan Tatkin says that being a Couples Therapist is like being a good Jazz Musician.

«Like any good jazz musician, you can go on all night doing these variations.