Sentences with phrase «studying jazz»

After studying jazz performance at McGill University from 2007 - 2010, Kate Palumbo continued to live in Montreal, immersed in the local music scene.

I had a lot of fun, studying jazz and playing with some great, great people but I realized that I wasn't going to cut it as professional musician.

Adasiewicz began his career studying jazz drums, a background that informs his unique style.

The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

He studied jazz composition at Humber College in Toronto before earning a Master of Music degree at the famed Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Jeff learned to play a variety of instruments while young, studied jazz improvisation, musical theory and started doing composing while still a teenager.

He was born in 1930 in Nashville, came to New York to study jazz, got a job as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art and, from 1955 or so on, set himself up as the guy who painted white squares — thousands by now, with more coming all the time from a master who turned 80 last Sunday.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952 he moved New York to study jazz.

He was a participant in the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace independent study program and received a MFA from New York University, as well as having studied Jazz, Arabic, and Heavy Metal drumming.

Joe received a MFA from New York University, participated in Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace programme in 2011 - 12, and has independently studied jazz, Arabic and heavy - metal drumming.

Heralding from QLD, Monica moved to Melbourne 20 years ago to study jazz and pursue a musical career.

Not exact matches

For the study, 22 men and women from Division I golf programs in the Midwest practiced putting in silence and while listening to different genres of music, including classical, country, jazz, and hip - hop / rap.

He said that when Americans are studied 1,000 years from now, we'll be known for three things: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music.

He said, when Americans are studying 1,000 years from now, we'll be known for three things: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music.

Depending on whom you ask, neuromarketing — the study of how the brain responds to cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli — is either the inevitable future of the ad industry, or a distraction, just a bunch of jazz hands.

Melton Mustafa, founder of the jazz studies program at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, played with the Count Basie and Duke Ellington orchestras and once supported Frank Sinatra with his trumpet.

Outside study and later work was an interest in medieval church architecture, cricket, football, jazz and later bird watching and formula one motor racing.

In a new study, neuroscientists connected a network of electrodes to the hearing centers of 15 patients» brains (image above) and recorded the brain activity while they listened to words like «jazz» or «Waldo.»

Seven dance types were included in the study: ballet; jazz; hip - hop; flamenco; salsa / ballet folklorico; tap; and partnered dance (which included ballroom, merengue, and swing).

Thereby, different procedures may have established in their brains while playing the piano which makes switching between the styles more difficult,» says Daniela Sammler, neuroscientist at MPI CBS and leader of the current study about the different brain activities in jazz and classical pianists.

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.

Citation: Limb CJ, Braun AR (2008) Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation.

In this study, we used functional MRI to study improvisation, which is the hallmark of jazz music [17].

When researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign replaced a fast - food restaurant's fluorescent lights and rock - and - roll soundtrack with softer incandescent bulbs and mellow jazz, study participants ate 18 percent less food.

Matthew Mannix is a classically trained dancer and graduate from The Ailey School, where he studied Ballet, Horton, Graham - based modern, Jazz, and African, and graduated from the Professional Division Certificate Program.

Writer Gerald Early once said, «when they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz music.

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The move proved a fateful blessing when young Saldana discovered her love of dance and enrolled in the ECOS Espacio de Danza Academy shortly thereafter, where she would study ballet, jazz, and modern Latin dance.

Although Friedman first studied classical piano, he fell in love with the voice of jazz and performed with jazz greats such as Chet Baker and Buddy DeFranco.

Dancing on the Edge, a new five - part miniseries debuting on Starz, is an intriguing crime saga, a great celebration of jazz in the 1930s, and a sly study of mid-war British society.

An aspiring jazz drummer taking classes at a prestigious, fictitious music conservatory in New York City, Andrew yearns to be legendary — the heir apparent to Buddy Rich, whose work he religiously studies and whose face he plasters across the walls of his dormitory.

Whiplash stars Miles Teller as Andrew, as aspiring young jazz drummer studying at a New York conservatory.

You can't do a quick study of jazz and try to fake it once filming commences.

Wanting nothing less than to be the best jazz drummer in the world, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) travels to one of New York's most prestigious music conservatories and finds himself studying under the sarcastic, abrasive, and hostile tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons).

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Cited four times as best trombonist in the annual Downbeat Critics Poll, Wycliffe Gordon recently was named a visiting artist in the jazz studies program at Johns Hopkins University.

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Pedro continued his jazz studies (composition and piano) until 2006.

Larry Rivers (1923 — 2002) started his career as a jazz musician in 1940 while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music, and later shifted towards the world of visual art.

He did fill his paintings with spontaneous passages, as a jazz musician might, and after a brief time early in his career it seems that he went directly into his paintings without any significant compositional studies.

He changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 as he worked as a jazz musician while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music.

Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), a Filipino American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Cecilia Bengolea (b. 1979, Buenos Aires) was trained as a jazz and urban dancer and studied Eugenio Barba's ancestral dances, also known as anthropological dances.

After three years teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Marsalis joined the University of New Orleans, where he spent 12 years heading the Jazz Studies department.

In 1974, Marsalis became the Director of Jazz Studies at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts high school, mentoring such contemporary artists as Reginald Veal, Terence Blanchard, and Harry Connick Jr..

Born into a poor family in Wilkes - Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline was educated in a school for fatherless boys — his father having committed suicide in 1917 — and went on to study painting in Boston and then in London.He returned to the States after marrying, made «jazz murals» and found employment as a graphic artist for the WPA during the Depression, settling in downtown New York City in 1939, quite down on his luck.

Brandon Collwes > Trained at the Pittsburgh CLO in musical theater and jazz dance, at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater when he studied George Balanchine technique, the Creative and Performing Arts High School of Pittsburgh where he started making his own choreography, and the Juilliard School and SUNY Purchase for some college.

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.

His regular feature alternates between traditional one - panel jokes to half - page collage cartoons presenting an illustrated study of Chicago and its prominent music forms, jazz and blues.

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