Sentence examples for sharp composer from inspiring English sources

January 2 2014 January 5 201414 A formidable pianist and sharp composer who has a knack for assembling terrific post-bop bands (his current quintet includes the trumpeter Randy Brecker and the saxophonist David Sanchez, as well as Scott Colley, on bass, and Ari Hoenig, on drums), Werner is also a musical guru of sorts.

Kenny Werner A formidable pianist and sharp composer who has a knack for assembling terrific post-bop bands (his current quintet includes the trumpeter Randy Brecker and the saxophonist David Sanchez, as well as Scott Colley, on bass, and Ari Hoenig, on drums), Werner is also a musical guru of sorts.

Prokofiev spent the nineteen-twenties and early thirties in Europe, and there he turned himself into a fully modernist composer: sharp, dissonant, spare.

(Chinen) JESSICA LURIE TRIO (Monday) Ms. Lurie, a sharp multireedist and composer, digs into a trio setting with the bassist Todd Sickafoose and the drummer Allison Miller.

Secrest begins the biography by painting a sharp picture of the composer's high-living bachelor days.

(Chinen) MATT BREWER QUINTET (Saturday) Matt Brewer, a sharp young bassist and composer, leads a band with the saxophonists David Binney and Adam Niewood, the pianist Yaron Herman and the drummer Gerald Cleaver.

(Chinen) JAMES CARNEY GROUP (Tomorrow) Mr. Carney, an accomplished composer and sharp pianist, features his own material in this ensemble with the trombonist Josh Roseman, the tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh, the bassist Chris Lightcap and the drummer Ted Poor.

But Mr. Driver could not redeem Wagner's Fantasy in F sharp minor, a teenage composer's tedious, meandering attempt to evoke the rarefied world of Beethoven's late sonatas.

(Chinen 20100211 BILL STEWART QUARTET (Friday and Saturday) The drummer Bill Stewart has a quiet but serious profile as a sharp-minded bandleader and composer.

(Chinen) BILL STEWART GROUP (Tonight and tomorrow night) The drummer Bill Stewart has a quiet but serious profile as a sharp-minded bandleader and composer; here he enlists ace musicians like the alto and soprano saxophonist Steve Wilson and the pianist David Kikoski.

The wildly popular C sharp minor Prelude dogged the composer, as "Bolero" dogged Ravel, giving rise to the spurious criticism that such wide appeal suggests a trivial talent.