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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.
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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
Van Zweden has been a courteous concerto accompanist, and in January, with the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, a soloist of patrician grace, Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto glowed, surging forward without feeling pressed.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 June 2024
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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
Van Zweden has been a courteous concerto accompanist, and in January, with the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, a soloist of patrician grace, Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto glowed, surging forward without feeling pressed.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompanist
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The two-hour event launched in 2019, and this year included amenities such as face-painting, an Asian indoor market, singing by soloist Wen Gi from Gurnee, the traditional Lion Dance plus performance art by the Soaring Eagle Kung Fu group of Palatine in a lower-level courtyard.—
Karie Angell Luc,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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Two other soloists from the K-pop industry have scored more than a pair of placements on the pop radio roster.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
31 Jan. 2025
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Jackman, for the record, also has learned the names of, and provided employment to, the veteran pair of Radio City Music Hall house organists, the musicians in his more-than-amply sized orchestra, his backup singers, his clutch of dancers.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Join in the singing of beloved hymns and anthems with guest choir conductor and organist Charles Frost.—
Del Mar Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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The Wicked star, an accomplished jazz pianist with three albums to his name, played As Time Goes By in tribute to stars including David Lynch and Maggie Smith.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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At 18, Brandes organized a concert in Cologne for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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This was the kind of virtuoso filmmaking Lynch had never displayed before and perhaps would never do again (with the arguable exception of Mulholland Drive).—
Stephen Galloway,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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But Ell is also a guitar virtuoso influenced by some very non-country artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
31 Oct. 2024
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The maestro of Mar-a-Lago deserves credit, not condemnation, for implementing such a bold order as one of his very first second-term acts.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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One play: Giannis Antetokounmpo, midrange maestro After the Bucks’ comeback win on Tuesday, Antetokounmpo went through his normal postgame routine.—
Eric Nehm,
The Athletic,
1 Jan. 2025
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Other honorees included jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who played God Bless America at a State Department ceremony on Saturday night.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
8 Dec. 2024
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One night in 1969, jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, who had opened a nightclub in Atlanta, coaxed Uecker up onstage.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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