Sentences with phrase «playing jazz»

Dan would stay home in their one - bedroom apartment on Blake Avenue in East New York — at that time, not yet the sister neighborhood of 1945 Stalingrad — and dream his old dream of playing jazz trumpet, another enthusiasm that had hysterically played itself out at the New York School of Music (Sunset Park branch) over a little less than eight months.

He started out playing jazz, and one could call that a key influence, too.

He started out playing jazz, and one could call that a key influence, too, as with the artists in the Whitney's «Blues for Smoke.»

However, the first ends with white men playing jazz on the edge of sleep, the second with the electric growl of a man down to sharing his last clean shirt with his brother Bill.

Flora, who's black, and Henry, who's white, fall in love while playing jazz in Depression - era Seattle.

Tomlinson and Germundson compare teaching well to playing jazz well.

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.

But their real calling is playing jazz music.

She is busy in the kitchen making vol au vent, barely aware of her husband, Bill (Timothy Spall), who is sitting dolefully in the living room, playing jazz on old - school analog LPs.

The sound is sensational, as is Elmer Bernstein, The Wild Side, produced for Varese Sarabande by Robert Townson and featuring The Big Band of the Canary Islands playing Jazz favourites... both are a must - have Michael, as is The Rat Race and Sweet Smell of Success.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

Playing jazz bass degrades one's fingerprints to the point of unreadability, in my experience.

(If not playing jazz will be hard).

Responding ethically to crisis is like playing jazz: it takes both understanding and creativity.

Do you recommend using a pick, or finger style to play jazz?

Or play jazz music for someone who hated jazz?

Oh, and whites do play jazz.

A trio plays jazz on the small stage.

Just look at the last threads while the Rockets played the Jazz and the Nuggets.

He plays jazz piano and is a member of the Musicians» Union.

He plays jazz piano, thinks acting is a «magical, mystical journey» — and couldn't care less about the money.

They come out when I improvise, play jazz.

He was what Southerners call a «good ol' boy,» a 53 - year - old drywall contractor and Vietnam veteran living in Douglasville, Georgia, who liked to play jazz guitar, have a few beers, and hang out with the guys.

«Let's face it — trying to develop a system that can play jazz is a crazy idea,» Grosser said.

Keith Jarrett, world - famous jazz pianist, once answered in an interview when asked if he would ever be interested in doing a concert where he would play both jazz and classical music: «No, that's hilarious.

Michael Barton has high - functioning autism, studies physics at the University of Surrey, UK, plays jazz piano and gives talks on the positive aspects of autism.

These days, Sato is learning to play jazz, taking private music lessons twice a month.

At Lexington High School, Noah captains the school's math team and plays jazz piano.

Apparently his team played the Jazz over the weekend.

For example you can play jazz before love.

I play Jazz Guitar and other styles of music.

The fourth full - length release for the Scottish collective (who do not play jazz nor a trio) is the first to features just one vocalist, Kate Sudgen.

Or else I wanted to play jazz or become a schoolteacher.

Jennifer Lawrence will play jazz musician Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic from Ron Howard, says THR.

He plays a jazz pianist in the upcoming musical «La La Land» and a brooding indie rocker in Terrence Malick's new film «Weightless».

Unfortunately, Gosling will be overlooked, though the fact that he spent four months learning to play jazz piano should put him over the top in the balloting.

After Dangerous Liaisons, Pfieffer would get as close to winning an Oscar as she would ever get in The Fabulous Baker Boys where she played a jazz singer (and stole many hearts with her electrifying rendition of «Makin» Whoopee»).

«Whiplash» is, as they say, a tough sell — I don't know how many adults will be interested in watching the travails of a teen musician, and I don't know how many teens will rush to a film about the work and agony required to play jazz drums.

All Jamie wants is for life to be normal — to play jazz and keep his 4.0 grade - point average.

No one is going to swoop in and be like «Sorry, a comic book about penguins plays jazz is stupid.

If we play jazz music loudly he will sing along.

Maybe it was the old men who gathered in the square outside my hotel to play jazz that struck an endearing chord in my heart.

Onsite dining options include the Orchid international buffet restaurant, Nostradamus bar which serves cocktails and plays Jazz music and the Bar - Be-Que & Grill which serves grilled meat, fish and seafood.

In addition to his game audio interests, he also plays jazz trumpet in the Seattle area, creates abstract generative electronic music, and is nurturing a new interest in analog synthesizers.

Having pursued the instrument into his teens, he improved his skills in a cover band that played jazz and rock music — mainly the songs of Deep Purple and progressive rock group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer — though he chose not to grow his hair like his fellow band members, always mesmerised by the music rather than the image.

It would be great to play a jazzed up GOW again

Three years earlier, at age twenty - two, Robert Ryman arrived in New York to play jazz.

Local luminaries Low Budget and Spank Rock will be making a mess on the main floor, and we will be up in the attic trying to figure out ways to play jazz records, then not playing them at all.

After enlisting in the United States Army (1950 — 52), he moved to New York to play jazz.

After enlisting in the United States Army (1950 - 52), he moved to New York City to play Jazz.