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
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Noun
  • The project gives the singer-songwriter his first top 10 smash on all of those purchase-only rosters as a soloist.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • By notching his eighth ruler on Regional Mexican Airplay, and fifth as a soloist, Muñoz joins two other solo singers who have achieved eight or more No. 1s in the 2020s decade.
    Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Led since its inception by guitarist and organist Jorge Rodríguez Grández, Los Mirlos is named after Peruvian jungle blackbirds.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2025
  • The saga is chronicled on his 2009 LP Fork in the Road.) Talkin’ To The Trees is Young’s first album with his new band, the Chrome Hearts, which includes guitarist Micah Nelson, organist Spooner Oldham, bassist Corey McCormick, and drummer Anthony Logerfo.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The innovative German composer and pianist performs a blend of classical and electronic music.
    Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
  • Nama has worked on similar project with other close artistic companions including Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Laureate Charles Simic, pianist and writer/poet Alfred Brendel, and the 20th Century French poet and art historian Yves Bonnefoy.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Become Good At Something In Groundhog Day, Connors appears to relive the same day hundreds of times over; however, throughout the course of the film, Connors learns to speak French and becomes an expert at ice sculpting and a virtuoso pianist.
    Michael Hicks, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • During a pivotal moment of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway, country virtuoso Orville Peck makes a bold choice.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With his contract expiring and a summer move incoming, the stage is set for the Belgian maestro to deliver one more symphony on English soil.
    Julia Ranney, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • De Niro also told Martin Scorsese to check out DiCaprio, who, along with De Niro, collaborated with the maestro for his entire career.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Don’t miss: Local trumpeter/singer/Treme star/barbecue master Kermit Ruffins doing a tribute to Louis Armstrong.
    Dan Reilly, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Local trumpeter Keyon Harrold returns as MATI’s artist-in-residence, while Pedrito Martinez joins as the artist-at-large, performing across multiple sets.
    Marc Schneider, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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