Sentences with phrase «other jazz artists»

He avoided the scourge of hard drugs that left so many other jazz artists incarcerated or dead before their prime, but his extramarital affairs were the stuff of legend.

Not exact matches

Lorimar Winery has music by jazz artists and other performers at both its Old Town and Wine Country locations.

Located in the Riverside Hotel, the Sapphire Room is a swanky bar and music venue that seats up to 170 people and features performances by jazz, blues, classical, and pop artists, among others.

An accomplished jazz musician and connoisseur of America's musical art form well beyond his other gigs of directing and acting, Clint Eastwood's scores have always been about memorable thematic simplicity, memorable melodies that other artists have helped him expound upon in such scores as «Unforgiven» and «Flags of Our Fathers.»

Vibrant and energetic artwork by local singer, contemporary painter and performance artist extraordinaire Stuart Carey, whose jazz band X-Tet performs at Seven every other Thursday.

Seven Bar & Kitchen: Vibrant and energetic artwork by local singer, contemporary painter and performance artist extraordinaire Stuart Carey, whose jazz band X-Tet performs at Seven every other Thursday.

Earlier that year, in my other incarnation as a jazz singer / songwriter, I'd been to a guerrilla marketing seminar for independent music artists, where I was beaten over the head with the importance of having a blog, a Facebook fan page, and tweeting regularly on Twitter.

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

Already accustomed to working with each other, Ethiopian - born artist Julie Mehretu and the American jazz pianist Jason Moran will once again collaborate on a project, this time for Performa 17.

Delaney's interest in the arts also included poetry and jazz, and he formed close friendships with writers such as James Baldwin and Henry Miller, and other artists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe, and Al Hirschfeld.

They married in 1954 and shared a building on Fillmore Street which was a hang out for other artists, writers and jazz musicians.

«Life, Jazz and Lots of Other Things» is Sam Nhlengethwa's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Based in Johannesburg, Nhlengethwa is revered as one of South Africa's leading contemporary artists.

Other highlights from the sweeping exhibition include Romare Bearden's Jazz 1930s — The Savoy (1964), South Korean artist Lee Lee - Nam's digital video Early Spring Drawing - Four Seasons 2 (2011), a pair of Lakota gauntlets (ca. 1890), photography by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Roy DeCarava, and Gertrude Käsebier; paintings by Emile Bernard, Ed Blackburn, Archie Scott Gobber, and Albert Bloch, sculptures by James Henry Haseltine and Tip Toland; works on paper by Kara Walker, George Copeland Ault, Miguel Rivera, and Jules Olitski; and decorative arts including a Christopher Dresser claret jug and umbrella stand, a frame by Archibald Knox, and jewelry by the late artist Marjorie Schick.

In 1976 he co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet (along with two other Black Artists» Group members, Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake), which soon became jazz music's most renowned saxophone quartet.

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.

In addition to Stout, the other artist I see an affinity with is Nicholas Krushenick (1929 — 1999), a maverick who was influenced by Matisse, and whose work took off after he saw JAZZ by Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 17 — September 19, 1960).

In addition to Stout, the other artist I see an affinity with is Nicholas Krushenick (1929 - 1999), a maverick who was influenced by Matisse, and whose work took off after he saw JAZZ by Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 17 - September 19, 1960).

South African artist Sam Nhlengethwa (b. 1955) had his first U.S. museum show, «Life, Jazz and Lots of Other Things,» at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, as part of the deFINE Art Festival, when I chatted with him while viewing the exhibition.

It is interesting that people like Jackson Pollock and other abstract artists said they listened to jazz.

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.

The collision between Abstract Expressionism and jazz began in the galleries and clubs of New York in the 1940s, as avant - garde artists from each world learned more about each other.

The jazz pianist will perform live, accompanying Jonas, other performers featured in Venice, and re-edited video footage from the artist's pavilion installation that is evocative of the fragility of nature in a rapidly changing situation.

Other than his titles, which are often derived from rock and roll or jazz («Great Balls of Fire,» «BlackBird,» and «SunRa»), the artist makes no allusions to popular culture.

It feels edgy and improvisational, yet assured — just like the bebop jazz that Goldberg and other artists loved.

2013 - 2014 TJ Wilcox: In The Air: panoramic video installation at the Whitney Museum NYC (collaboration with the Artist to create largest 360 time lapse in the world) 2012 Art Wynwood, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY USA 2012, The Other Side (solo show), 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY 2011 - 2012 GSB Art on Loan group show, New York, NY, USA 2011 Aqua Art, Miami, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY USA 2011 Lumin - o - City (solo show), Pousada de Palmela, Palmela, Portugal 2010 Aqua Art, Miami, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel Miami, FL, USA 2008 Winter Group Show «Boson Exotic», Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ, USA 2008 Incandescent, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY, USA 2008 BRiDGE as iCON Group Show, Tabla Rasa Gallery Brooklyn, NY, USA 2008 Photographers of BWAC, Kingsborough College, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2008 BWAC Spring Group Show, Redhook, Brooklyn, NY, USA (served also as show chair) 2007 Points of View, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2007 BWAC Fall Group Show, Redhook, Brooklyn, NY, USA (served also as show co-chair) 1996 The History of Jazz (digital illustration in collaboration with Nicolai Sarafov), Hugendubel, München, Germany 1995 Industrial Photography, permanent collection of the Landesgewerbeanstalt, Würzburg, Germany

And there are countless others, including American artist Stuart Davis, who desribed jazz as «a continuous source of inspiration in my work» an American art form in which he discovered «the same quality of art that I found in the best European painting».

The daytime events feature performances and appearances from jazz saxophonist Peter King, pianist and recording artist Rosey Chan, Fashion designer Alber Elbaz, choreographer Ann Van Der Broek, cognitive neuroscientist Professor Vincent Walsh, contemporary art curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist, Film director and actor Elia Sulieman, sculptor Richard Wentworth, journalist and presenter Jon Snow and English pop artist Peter Blake among others as they present their provocations around the theme of Truth.

The limited edition collection provides «researchers and jazz lovers unparalleled access into one of the most comprehensive visual records documenting the jazz era,» through two decades of live performances and nearly 100 interviews with jazz and blues artists, among many other assets.

African American history, from the Great Migration and Jazz age are depicted by other artists like Romare Bearden (1911 - 88) and Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 - 72).