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...The guitarist, visibly in his element, compressed country, jazz and rock references into a single solo, sometimes in the space of a few bars....
...Her father Emil was a piano teacher and church organist. But seeing the trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan play in a bar in San Francisco in the early 1950s proved a pivotal moment....
...Intense modal jazz and field-holler wails sit side by side, but only as signifiers in an intense and wide-ranging set....
.... ★★★★☆ The bedrock of the festival remains the network of clubs, arts centres and neighbourhood bars that present jazz and jazz-related music year-round....
...Gone, then, are the raucous jazz-bar singalongs, the steamy bathtub chess games, the queasy yacht party “peeping”. The general plot, settings and era, however, largely remain as before....
...Courtesy of its eponymous features, the piano bar sees most of the action....
...American bassist Christian McBride is a jazz polymath whose current projects range from big-band modern jazz to high-energy contemporary funk and the left-field piano-free quartet New Jawn....
...Becker: A Boy’s Head In his 1963 poem “A Boy’s Head”, Czech poet Miroslav Holub sifts through the imaginary contents of a child’s mind, from spaceships and bumblebees to “a project for doing away with piano...
...Their duo draws these strands together, often in the space of a few bars....
...He had been raised as a secular Jew — he says he had a “lip-sync bar mitzvah” — and he decided to begin studying Hebrew....
...Afterwards, you can have a drink in the adjoining bar under Margate resident Tracey Emin’s neon More Love sign....
...The original is a piano-led number with a forceful vocal and exuberant comic tone, small-scale but with big ambitions....
...Her pieces can evoke, in the space of a couple of bars, Chopin or Debussy, the Mississippi Delta blues and the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church....
...Drummer and composer Sam Jesson, a key figure on the London jazz scene, leads the 28°-50° Vintage Piano Trio, who on Thursday evenings play their own takes on legendary pieces from Sonny Rollins to Dewey...
...It was here that, for Liszt’s 45th birthday, Wagner performed the premiere of the first act of Die Walküre, with Liszt on the piano and Wagner as Hunding and Sigmund....
...The involvement in this companion show of the servicemen’s local descendants is proof of how the colour bar was defied....
...At the centre of the room is a piano. There is jazz (and a $10 minimum cover charge) almost every night. But service from Serrano and his team may be as big a draw....
...Later, “Maurice and Michael (Sorry I Didn’t Say Hello)” opened with triumphant trumpet striding over four-in-the-bar piano....
...“I reached Cornwall, where I saw a lone beach hut on top of sand dunes and rented it, with just a bed and a single-bar fire, for three months....
...It was Miller the improviser who really raised the bar, orchestrating texture and filling the room with tense lines, thunderous slaps and singing high-note tones....
...Later in the set, Barron spun elegant lines as Moroni mimicked four-to-the-bar rhythm guitar by strumming the wires inside his grand piano’s lid....
...We will dance the tango, listen to jazz and wander the landscaped gardens and roof terrace. It will be a place to meet interesting people and explore creativity in all its forms,” he says....
...Five numbers in, the fiery title track resonates with harsh chords played four to the bar, swishy cymbals and scratchy bowed bass....
...On a warm Arkansan evening, a jazz quartet has drawn a crowd outside Walton’s five and dime in the main square....
...There will be a pizzeria, tap bar and bespoke dining and roof terrace areas....
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