I use the metaphor
of jazz improvisation regularly, particularly for scientific investigations.
Ernst's art is influenced by Japanese woodblock, the motion
of jazz improvisation, Asian aesthetics, geometric art, abstract expressionism and surrealism.
A saxophonist - turned - painter, he refused to adhere to any genre, and his puckish work has an air
of jazz improvisation.
Citation: Limb CJ, Braun AR (2008) Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study
of Jazz Improvisation.
Not exact matches
And
of course, the heart
of jazz music is all about
improvisation, not playing the notes on the page.
And it requires a set
of skills quite closely aligned to those required for musical
improvisation of the kind manifested by, say, a good
jazz musician.
Worship leaders in places that resist set or written prayers
of all kinds might consider using this form as a basis for
jazz - like
improvisation.
It's an embarrassing advent, and so we leave it to those embarrassing Christians who have turned apocalyptic speculation into a billion - dollar industry — prophecy buffs with their computer charts and wrong predictions that are then folded back into new predictions in the kind
of prophetic
improvisation that Paula Frederickson calls «apocalyptic
jazz.»
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Jazz is spontaneous - The essence of jazz is its improvisat
Jazz is spontaneous - The essence
of jazz is its improvisat
jazz is its
improvisation.
In this study, we used functional MRI to study
improvisation, which is the hallmark
of jazz music [17].
When is the last time you downloaded some
jazz with its watery
improvisation, or a classical score to steady the rhythm
of your mind?
This community was created for all those people who appreciate the chords
of jazz, the
improvisation, the hot and energetic sounds and want their partners to resemble
jazz itself!
Loves
of a Blonde is a montage
of cinematic
improvisations organised, like
jazz, around certain themes.
There's also more than enough reason to convert
jazz haters as well as Hurwitz effortlessly segues from O.G.
improvisation to the electronically hip in this engaging slice
of musical LA dream life and its myriad musical styles, turning a seemingly lost golden age
of musical storytelling into the hippest tune around.
They show us more
of Murray lamenting the closing
of his family's rare bookstore (1:19), Woody Allen
improvisation (3:05) with the black children to whom his character inexplicably looks after, extended Sharon Stone post-coital nudity and clothed sex (2:21), two Woody baseball field outtakes (0:25 & 0:57), and an extended
jazz club scene (2:54).
Jazz and
Improvisations for Year 8 Whole scheme
of work with a work sheet and a sheet with the music on for When the Saints go marching in.
But he is also associated with
jazz, world musics and
improvisation to name a few areas all melded into a unique vision
of 21st century guitar music.
Jeff learned to play a variety
of instruments while young, studied
jazz improvisation, musical theory and started doing composing while still a teenager.
In all aspects
of his work, Moran's creative process is informed by one
of the essential tenets
of jazz: the «set,» in which musicians come together to engage in a collaborative process
of improvisation, riffing off
of one another to create the musical experience.
Gerald Lazare, an artist friend and honorary member
of the Duke Ellington Society
of Canada, sees parallels between Sargent's paintings and Ellington's compositions, which combine the
improvisations of jazz with formal composition.
Together with
jazz pianist Jason Moran she has created an
improvisation of music, sound, movement and video.
2004 Mood Indigo: The Legacy
of Duke Ellington - A Look at
Jazz &
Improvisation in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
2001
Jazz and Visual
Improvisation, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX Out
of the Fifties — Into the Sixties: Six Figurative Expressionists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
It is a perfect, exhilarating example
of what Mr. Belz calls «one - shot painting» and likens to
jazz improvisation.
John Corbett analyzes Wool's navigation between
jazz - like
improvisation and deliberate composition; Fabrice Hergott focuses on the artist's dialogue with the surface as a subject
of the paintings; and John Kelsey digs into the artist's media - savvy black - and - white painted images: «Gestures go viral, escaping one painting and contaminating another.
AMY SILLMAN: I think we were engaged in mutual form
of improvisation, which is really probably how
jazz musicians work, or something.
GLENN O'BRIEN — But it also had this kind
of romantic spirit that
jazz had at the same time —
improvisation and discovery — that seems missing today.
American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body
of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles
of rhythm and
improvisation drawn from his study
of African cultures and American
jazz.
In critical response to the Natchez, Walker's calliope plays songs and sounds she associates with the long history
of African American protest music: gospel, reggae,
jazz improvisation, chants, and shouts.
2004 Modern American Painting from the NYU Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland Mood Indigo: The Legacy
of Duke Ellington - A Look at
Jazz &
Improvisation in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Influenced by both textiles and
jazz, these paintings create around themselves a field
of active energy as color interaction and mark
improvisation blend and riff off each other.
Like
jazz, the paintings are about
improvisation and presence, the act and the process
of making the work.
Music, in particular the speed and
improvisation of early boogie - woogie and
jazz, became great influences in Mondrian's work, as exemplified in his iconic painting Broadway Boogie - Woogie, which evoked the bustling, noisy energy
of the city.
John Akomfrah's newly commissioned film, Precarity (2017)-- on view at the Ogden Museum
of Southern Art — considers the roots
of that efflorescence in four meditative chapters about the life
of Charles «Buddy» Bolden, a popular New Orleans cornet player credited with the first
jazz - style
improvisation.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present «Design
Jazz:
Improvisations on the Urban Street,» a two - part exhibition inspired by Deb Johnson, Pratt's Academic Director
of Sustainability, that will document both theoretical and innovative approaches to the design...
As in
jazz,
improvisation propels Mason's art to new heights as she applies her well - honed gestural and color - field sensitivity to riffs
of intense color and bold vibrational passages.
Chris Corsano is a drummer who has been working at the intersections
of collective
improvisation, free
jazz, avant - rock, and noise music since the late 1990's.
He is best known for a personal and intensely physical saxophone technique, revealed through long form solo
improvisations, as well as collaborations with a multitude
of world - renowned and underground practitioners in
jazz, avant - garde, noise, classical, theater, and dance disciplines.
From 9 — 11 PM, Rhizome DC, in partnership with VisArts, presents a line - up
of musicians who defy boundaries with free
jazz improvisation, non-traditional instruments, and intentional experimentation.
They are a combination
of structure and
improvisation, the latter a particularly American practice that comes from Abstract Expressionism and
jazz.
Moran — who often collaborates with prominent visual artists such Joan Jonas, Stan Douglas, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon — pushes beyond the conventions
of sculpture and the concert stage while continuing to embrace the essential tenets
of jazz and
improvisation.
In all aspects
of his work, Moran's creative process is informed by one
of the essential tenets
of jazz music: the «set,» in which musicians come together to engage in a collaborative process
of improvisation, riffing off
of one another to create the musical experience.
Concurrent to the exhibition, the artist joins
jazz musician, Nolan Tsang, to host an evening
of cinematic and
jazz improvisation (12 December).
MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN Presented by Issue Project Room, a venerable experimental musician pays tribute to the seminal avant -
jazz composer and musician Ornette Coleman, who died in June, with «Trinity,» a violin solo Mr. Coleman wrote for him, and a series
of Mr. Goldstein's own works, including his trademark extended
improvisations.
It's a permanent concatenation, like a series
of notes akin to a
jazz musician's
improvisation using scales.
Adkins, who received an M.S. degree in Printmaking from Illinois State University's School
of Art, ingeniously united the
improvisation of a
jazz musician and the deep research
of a conceptual artist in his seamless blending
of performance, sound, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and video.
An amateur harmonic player, Ouillette is attracted to the
improvisation nature
of blues and
jazz.
Smith, a legendary trumpeter and composer primarily
of avant - garde
jazz and free
improvisation music, was one
of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his expansive
jazz work, Ten Freedom Summers.
Strangely, the catalog essays ignore the importance
of drawing to Davis's repetitions, but the paintings with recycled motifs, which he likened to his beloved
jazz musicians» fluid
improvisations on familiar tunes, illustrate the point.
The show — which runs from September 4 to 13 — includes exhibitions
of skate decks, a panel discussion centered around skate videos and a performance by the Bandwagon, the group fronted by Jason Moran (the Kennedy Center's artistic director for
jazz and also the festival's curator), who will execute a live
improvisation while skaters do their thing on the ramp.