Word: instrumentalized
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...It’s early on a Tuesday night, and Hanley Hanley is lying spread out across the top of the grand piano. “How cool would it be to have this piano on stage with us?” he asks, spinning himself around on the instrument. “How cool would it be to have this piano,” he repeats, wondering aloud how they could handle the $400 cost of moving the piano from the Spindell Room to the Agassiz for the production.His mind races, darting to one thing and another; Hanley...
...CCOE quintet that played in Sanders reflected Darweesh’s pan-hemispheric aesthetic. In addition to a violin and cello (played by Hanna Khoury and Kinan Abou-Afach, respectively), the ensemble included an ‘ud (Kareem Roustom), a guitar-like instrument that is the predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
...CCOE quintet. All of the musicians delivered virtuosic performances, but riqq player Nagi was especially dazzling. He showcased incredible mastery and bravura during several show-stopping solos; rock drummers with full kits would struggle to match the rhythmic variety and tonal subtlety Nagi achieved with his single instrument...
...throughout the early 90s. Since then, Rosenwinkel has established himself as an original sound—not such an easy thing to do in a jazz scene crammed with guitarists and appraised by critics who claim that Pat Metheny and John Scofield have already closed the book on the instrument. It helped that Rosenwinkel came to prominence at the same time a group of young New York musicians was getting ready to redefine the jazz idiom. Rosenwinkel earned his stripes by gigging with other young lions such as pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier, who would both...
According to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Warner faces multiple charges, including attempted murder, aggravated assault, carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a firearm in a public street, possessing an instrument of crime, terrorist threats, simple assault, and reckless endangerment of another person...