accompanist

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Recent Examples of accompanist In Lasker-Wallfisch’s recollection, the accompanist conjured an uncanny shimmering sound at the beginning. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024 An accompanist who toured and recorded with numerous jazz luminaries before earning renown as a bandleader in his own right, Tana has been Wolff’s go-to drummer for Bay Area trio gigs from SFJAZZ to Piedmont Piano Company. Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024 As one of the Southland’s leading accompanists he’s made forays north in recent years with artists like saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf and vocalist Sara Gazarek. Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024 Records, a once-mighty jazz label that had gone dormant at Universal, in 2014, and released albums by the Henry Butler-Steven Bernstein Hot 9, the pianists Sullivan Fortner and Rodney Kendrick (Ms. Lincoln’s onetime accompanist), Mr. Haden and others. Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for accompanist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompanist
Noun
  • First Presbyterian Church of Mount Dora, 222 W. Sixth Ave., is sponsoring a patriotic concert and ice cream social at 4 p.m. June 29, featuring soloists Kasey Cox, Janelle Woodward and Rick Vale, along with percussionist John Lowe and pianist Randy Frieling.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
  • The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • My husband, who is sixty-nine, is also retired but freelances as a pianist and organist five or six days a week.
    Liana Finck, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
  • After winning his first Grammy this year for his roots-gospel album, Church, the organist and singer, known for his work with Snarky Puppy and Vulfpeck, appears to be in communion with something bigger than the stage.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Born in Argentina in 1932 to a musical family, Schifrin cut his chops as a jazz pianist in Europe before settling in America and drawing on his own skill to work first as a classical composer and then as a scorer for film and television.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • Gillespie caught one of his performances and asked Schifrin to become his pianist and arranger.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • He’s been a glamorous Visual Kei rock star, a classical composer, a virtuoso behind the drum kit, a producer and label owner and entrepreneur, and now, more than ever, an impresario.
    Steve Appleford, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • Little Feat, the archetypal ’70s band originally formed by Lowell George — a guitar virtuoso fired from the Mothers of Invention by Frank Zappa — has survived years of breakups, drug problems and even George’s untimely death in 1979.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Marchand, the maestro of the Panthers’ days-long Cup celebration, even nabbed a Dairy Queen endorsement.
    Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • Tributes have been pouring in this past week for Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder and pop music maestro, following his death aged 82.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • The latest iteration of the event included performances from trumpeter Tony Guerrero, Dustbowl Revival, Janet Klein & her Parlor Boys, and more.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 June 2025
  • Jackson’s many credits include collaborations with Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones and former San Diego trumpeter Brian Lynch.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025

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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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