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Higgins's songwriting grew out of a desire to express her emotions when she was at school, and her lyrics describe her feelings about her own life and relationships. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] The piano was the first instrument she learned to play, and she continues to use it as well as digital pianos , including a Roland RD-300SX, RD-700 and KR-15.
"Back to Life" is one of two songs on the album featuring British singer Caron Wheeler and gained success in both North America and Europe, topping the charts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and peaking at number four in the United States. Its music video, directed by Monty Whitebloom & Andy Delaney, of Big TV!, sees the group ...
She also frequently attended Litchfield Jazz Camp, which she attributes to her early interest in jazz. [5] [6] [7] Zuraitis studied classical voice at New York University. After a brief period performing opera professionally after graduation, she moved back to New York City to pursue songwriting and jazz in 2009. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Well, I Should Have... (subtitled Learned How To Play Piano) is an experimental jazz [1] album by American comedy actor and musician H. Jon Benjamin. It was released on November 27, 2015, on the Sub Pop label. [2] The album was intentionally recorded to sound bad, since, as the album's title indicates, Benjamin does not know how to play piano ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
The we’re-never-going-to-play-together-again-to-lucrative-reunion trail is well-worn at this point — just ask such famously feuding acts as the Eagles, Guns ‘N Roses, Pixies and, most ...
Manteca (song) " Manteca " is one of the earliest foundational tunes of Afro-Cuban jazz. Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie's recordings (along with the earlier "A Night in Tunisia") and is "one of the most important records ever made in the United States", according to ...
Tao was composer-in-residence for the 2009–10 season with Chicago's Music in the Loft concert series. As part of this program, the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music commissioned his "String Quartet No. 2" for the Jasper Quartet, which they performed throughout the US [25] [26] After hearing Tao play the premiere of his Three Songs for Piano (2010), the reviewer of The Washington Post called ...