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
  • Jimin has only released two albums as a soloist so far.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Ross Gershenson is the horn soloist for Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2007), composed by the South Bay’s Lee Actor.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Join in the singing of beloved hymns and anthems with guest choir conductor and organist Charles Frost.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Photos of Bill wearing his home run crown and others of him posing with ballpark organist Nancy Faust still generate smiles to this day.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The jazz pianist, who had a lifelong passion for playing music, discovered a vibrant community of skilled musicians who shared his enthusiasm for collaboration and pushing the boundaries of the genre.
    J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 11 Jan. 2025
  • On November 14, 2024, French-Lebanese pianist and composer Omar Harfouch made history in the Vatican Apostolic Library, one of the most sacred repositories of human knowledge.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In today's job market, choosing between being a virtuoso or polymath is like choosing between a chef's knife and a Swiss Army knife - one perfectly crafted for a specific purpose, the other ready for anything.
    Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • While mass-market tequilas and margaritas dominated the global scene for centuries, Mexico's true tequila maestros quietly refined their creations, waiting for the day the rest of the world recognized what tequila could be.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Here Now, and Perfect from music video maestro Millicent Hailes.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The immensely talented jazz-pop trumpeter has hit No. 1 on the Billboard jazz albums chart on multiple occasions and sold millions of records during a professional career that dates back to the mid-’80s.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024

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“Accompanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompanist. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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