Sentences with phrase «with jazz trumpeter»

Born in Los Angeles, as a teenager he took music classes with jazz trumpeter Chet Baker and art classes at the Chouinard Art Institute.

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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).

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, the filmmaker Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great.

This is the story of Chet Baker, the famous jazz trumpeter who in the mid 20th Century captivated jazz audiences and fellow musicians until his consumption with heroin destroyed him.

With a father who was a prominent jazz trumpeter, a grandmother who danced at The Cotton Club, and a grandfather who was a member of the Nat King Cole Trio, it may seem a given that actor Wren T. Brown would pursue a career in show business.

Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) falls in love with his movie co-star Jane (Carmen Ejogo) in «Born to Be Blue.»

Mickey Rourke stars as a down - on - his - luck jazz trumpeter who flees into the desert after he sleeps with the wife of local gangster Bill Murray and ends up targeted for death.

Extras: Interview from 2005 with Moreau; archival interviews with Moreau, Malle, actor Maurice Ronet, and original soundtrack session pianist René Urtreger; footage of Miles Davis and Malle from the soundtrack recording session; program from 2005 about the score featuring jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins; Malle's student film «Crazeologie,» featuring Charlie Parker's song «Crazeology»; trailers; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.

I CALLED HIM MORGAN Though the tale of trumpeter Lee Morgan is a bit fractured and left with lots of holes in it, the documentary footage of him and other jazz greats of the era is worth the price of admission.

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.

BRIDGEHAMPTON MUSEUM ARCHIVES BUILDING - «Parlor Jazz / Art of Song Concert - A Session with Dr. Feelgood» takes place on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. «A Session with Dr. Feelgood» features vocalist Sari Kessler and trumpeter Charlie Caranicas.

As if to puncture the solemnity, an adjacent room is given over to jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's vibrant graphic scores, dating from 1968 to 2014, which adopted a system he termed — with reference to the ancient Egyptian word ankh, meaning life force — Ankhrasmation.