There were many incredible submissions, but we could only pick 3 winners: The first prize went out to UCLA TFT student Mark Columbus for The Battle
of the Jazz Guitarist, an autobiographical short film about the complicated relationship between father and son.
Not exact matches
Question for you Jazzaxman, I am switching over from piano to guitar and will be trying to play mostly
jazz pieces, along the lines
of Bill Frissel and some bossa from
guitarists like Baden Powell.
Referred to as a «holy blues»
guitarist, Blind Willie Johnson (d. 1945) played on the streets
of Marlin, Texas, eventually contributing to the early
jazz and blues music
of Deep Ellum on the eastern side
of Dallas.
Most famous Roma Im aware
of would be Django Reinhardt (1910 -1953),
jazz guitarist extraordinaire.
After the opening segment on Wray, the film traces a lineage
of pre-rock trailblazers, starting with the Choctaw / African - American blues
guitarist Charley Patton and pre-war
jazz vocalist Mildred Bailey — «She was one
of the great improvisers
of jazz,» says Tony Bennett — from the Coeur d'Alene tribe.
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.
Nels Cline,
guitarist for the indie rock band Wilco, says Frisell's impact «on the landscape
of creative guitar music — not just
jazz — is incalculable.»
In this pseudo-biopic, Penn plays Emmett Ray, the insecure second - best
jazz guitarist of the 1930s, who deep down knows he'll never be as good as the incomparable Django Reinhardt.
There is no «us and them» attitude: all genres
of music are equally valued; and youngsters are encouraged to participate in more than one area, eg a classical
guitarist will also play electric guitar in the
jazz band, and sing in the chorus
of the school musical.
Sonnenblick has created a memorable cast
of characters: acerbic Sol, a former famous
jazz guitarist who is now dying
of emphysema; narrator Alex, a budding
guitarist with a tendency to make excuses rather than assume responsibility; and Alex's best friend Laurie, a tiny, pixielike karate master whom Sol refers to as Alex's «wife.»
A few years back, Holland met up with famed flamenco
guitarist Pepe Habichuela, the acclaimed scion
of a deep - rooted Gypsy family from Granada, as part
of a
jazz - meets - flamenco pairing instigated by a Sevilla arts organization.
At times, his arrangements
of jazz, Brazilian, «60s pop, and other music demand that he play simultaneous melody and bass lines — a technique he learned from world - class
guitarist Tuck Andress,
of the duo Tuck & Patti.
Attendees will tune into a blues and
jazz lineup that includes Blues Hall
of Fame inductee and guitar legend Joe Louis Walker;
jazz / rock guitar legend and «Godfather
of Fusion» Larry Coryell; Grammy - winning and New Orleans
jazz royalty Delfeayo Marsalis; Grammy - winning The Band Courtbouillon with Wayne Toups, Steve Riley and Wilson Savoy; Grammy - nominated
jazz saxophone master Javon Jackson;
jazz trumpeter Gabriel Mark Hasselbach; sax master Rock Hendricks; and
jazz guitarist and Na Hoku winner Benny Uyetake.
As a professional
guitarist and music educator, Prem trained as a
jazz guitarist in Switzerland and earned a Bachelor
of Education degree in Music from University
of Hawai'i at Manoa.
The general consensus, then, is that this Muscovite artist — the 13th
of 14 children — left his affluent, horse - breeding home at the age
of 12, earning a living as a
jazz guitarist (first in the pre-revolutionary Russian capital, and later across the cafes
of Europe after fleeing the bloodshed with his aunt Nadia, a singer).
Michelle began her work in the field
of performance as the
guitarist of an eight - piece gypsy
jazz punk band.
Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet;
jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor
of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam;
guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.
Inspired by the compositions
of legendary gypsy
guitarist Django Reinhardt, The Hot Club
of Troy plays acoustic
jazz in the...
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