accompanist

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Recent Examples of accompanist 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 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 See all Example Sentences for accompanist 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompanist
Noun
  • Five soloists boast multiple merry leaders: Josh Groban (four); Michael Bublé and Kimberley Locke (three each); and Jim Brickman and Meghan Trainor (two each).
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
  • While some idols wait years to tour internationally as soloists or apart from their groups, Hwasa is seizing the opportunity early to prove that her appeal extends far beyond her home country.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • These nocturnal artisans were assisted by the four organists of Notre Dame, each of whom was intimately acquainted with the unique character of the organ’s sound from years spent playing the instrument.
    Caroline Baum and Sérène Nourrison, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Nationally renowned theater organist Mark Herman performs songs of the season.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For a recital by Filippo Gorini, an Italian pianist, go here.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Her death, in 2011, haunts the film and hovers over Carax’s depiction of their daughter, Nastya, seen in home movies as a small child and, as an adult, as an accomplished pianist.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The whole thing was an exercise in virtuoso terraforming.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 July 2024
  • Yet given his gifts (keyboard virtuoso, powerful soul voice, stellar dancer, able to craft a propulsive hook), why didn’t Billy Preston become a bigger star?
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Bard, molding an ensemble of hummers, resembles an imperious maestro.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • There were no film festivals in 1922 when German film maestro F.W. Murnau made his version, but in 1979, Werner Herzog premiered his take on Count Orlok’s nefarious designs in competition at Berlin and came away with a top prize.
    Steven Gaydos, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Washington plays the trumpeter Bleek, a flashy, jazz-loving young man whose talent is always running neck and neck with his penchant for self-sabotage.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The tree made its first TV appearance on The Howdy Doody Show, and decorations went from cranberries and popcorn to red garland, white plastic globes, icicle lights and wiry white angel trumpeters.
    Kate Hogan, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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