In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, valued at $900.

Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On The Side Of The Angels '' and `` Politics And Poker '' were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little Tin Box '' even better than it was done by the New York cast ; ;

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

He was given the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at Thurii over a rebellious band of slaves.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Alaric's first appearance was as the leader of a mixed band of Goths and allied peoples who invaded Thrace in 391, who were stopped by the half-Vandal Roman General Stilicho.

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

* Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

In early to mid July, the band recruited 6025 ( Carlos Cadona ) as a secondary guitarist.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

Bolstered by this success, Brown recruited a new band, consisted of saxophonist J. C. Davis, guitarist Bobby Roach, bassist Bernard Odum, trumpeter Roscoe Patrick, saxophonist Albert Corley, drummer Nat Kendrick and his old band mate Bobby Byrd, who had rejoined Brown's band on organ.

Brown and his fellow Famous Flame, Bobby Byrd, recruited several members of the Cincinnati band, The Pacemakers, which included Bootsy Collins and his brother Phelps " Catfish " Collins, and, using some remaining members of Brown's 1960s road band and other newer musicians, dubbed the band simply as The J. B .' s.

The record company then recruited Kim Fowley to produce more sessions with the band, this time at Gold Star Studios, with better results.

The remaining members recruited John Ellis, who had had a long-standing association with the band.

In 2000, Ellis left the band and a new guitarist, Baz Warne, was recruited.

Following Apollo 18, Flansburgh and Linnell decided to move away from the guitar & accordion ( or sax ) plus backing tracks on tape nature of their live show, and recruited a supporting band that consisted of live musicians ( Kurt Hoffman of the Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg ).

The band admired label head Seymour Stein, who had managed the Ramones, and Stein recruited Tommy Ramone as producer for their first major label album.

Also recruited around this time for the live shows was session-keyboardist / programmer Nigel Ippinson, who had previously played with the band on the re-working of " Begging You " for its release as a single.

There, from among the dispossessed of the south, Pelagius recruited his band of fighters.

Still in 1988, they were recruited ( with Craig Gannon ) to Adult Net, but left the band soon afterwards.

Prince then recruited new band members Miko Weaver on guitar, Atlanta Bliss on trumpet, Eric Leeds on saxophone, Boni Boyer on keyboards, Levi Seacer, Jr. on bass and dancer Cat Glover.

), with band members Dave Grohl and Pat Smear being recruited from Scream and The Germs, and singer Kurt Cobain listing hardcore albums among his top 50 favorites.

They recruited Chilean bassist and vocalist Tom Araya, who had played with King before in the band Quits ( previously known as Tradewinds ).

By late 1980, the band had recruited two guitarists, and the setlist was made up of songs by bands such as Motörhead (" Overkill ", half of the Ace of Spades album ), Judas Priest (' Tyrant ' was their closer ), and Riot.

Yli-Sirniö, who lived in Germany, was known to be a good guitar player, so the band recruited him.

Young switched to guitar, and they recruited bassist Henry Olsen and drummer Phillip " Toby " Tomanov, who had both been in Nico's backing band, The Faction.

After Holetz and Russell left, the band briefly recruited Bjelland's friend-and former bandmate of the band Pagan Babies-Courtney Love on bass.

The threshold concept was discussed by Murray G. Crosby ( inventor of Crosby system for FM Stereo ) who pointed out that for wide band FM to provide better signal to noise ratio, the signal should be above a certain threshold, according to his paper published in Proceedings of the IRE in 1937.

Lee appeared in Broken Social Scene's music video for their 2006 single " Fire Eye'd Boy ", judging the band while they perform various musical tasks, and in 2006, Lee joined Lifeson's supergroup the Big Dirty Band, to provide songs accompanying Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.

IEEE 802. 11ac is a standard under development which will provide high throughput in the 5 GHz band.

Since the RNA is first separated by size, if only one probe type is used variance in the level of each band on the membrane can provide insight into the size of the product, suggesting alternative splice products of the same gene or repetitive sequence motifs.

1987's Life as We Know It saw a decline in sales, but still managed to provide the band with the hits " That Ain't Love " ( U. S. # 16 ) and " In My Dreams " ( U. S. # 19 ).

Block conversion of the entire affected frequency band onto UHF, while less common, was used by some models to provide full VCR compatibility and the ability to drive multiple TV sets, albeit with a somewhat nonstandard channel numbering scheme.

* the adaptation of the flag, rifle, and sabre units into " auxiliaries ", who march with the band and provide visual flair by spinning and tossing flags or mock weapons and using dance in the performance

The Intelsat Americas 5, Galaxy 10R and AMC 3 satellites over North America provide a quite large amount of FTA channels on their K < sub > u </ sub > band transponders.

A broad black band was applied to some tubular paper capacitors to indicate the end that had the outer electrode ; this allowed this end to be connected to chassis ground to provide some shielding against hum and noise pickup.

Next G uses the 850 MHz band, since it requires fewer base stations to provide coverage, providing a lower capital cost.

To provide 8 channels on a single fiber CWDM uses the entire frequency band between second and third transmission window ( 1310 / 1550 nm respectively ) including both windows ( minimum dispersion window and minimum attenuation window ) but also the critical area where OH scattering may occur, recommending the use of OH-free silica fibers in case the wavelengths between second and third transmission window should also be used.

Two-stroke engines often provide high power-to-weight ratio, usually in a narrow range of rotational speeds called the " power band ", and, compared to 4-stroke engines, have a greatly reduced number of moving parts.

It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer ; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum.

Also, the Pottsville High School football team and Black and Gold Brigade marching band provide entertainment at Friday night football games.

album recording, but continued to provide percussion for the band's albums ( and many others ) for years, and even reunited with other early members of the band for a 1999 performance in California.

The name ' Band Aid ' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well-known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound.

" Scarcely had he chosen his table at the Dôme or the Sélect than he would be surrounded by five or six friends ; at nine o ' clock, when we got up to dinner, we would be 20 in all, and later in the evening, when we decided to go up to Montmartre to Charlotte Gardelle's or the Princess Marfa's — where Pascin loved to take the place of the drummer in the jazz band — he had to provide for 10 taxis.

The band was known to never provide a straight answer ( and for that matter, almost never the same answer twice ) when defining the band's name.

In January, 1972 Mick Bolton left the group, and UFO set out to find a guitarist who could provide the band with a more standard rock sound.

In or around 1994, Eldritch has alluded to have been preoccupied with legal matters surrounding the band, although he has failed to provide many details.

The band soon became very popular with the squatter scene, left-wing student and workers ' movement and was invited to numerous political events to provide the soundtrack to demonstrations, parties and rallies across Germany which often inspired the audience to translate the message into action afterwards.

The Byrds ' reworking of " Mr. Tambourine Man ", along with The Animals ' rock interpretation of " The House of the Rising Sun " ( itself based on Dylan's earlier cover ), helped to provide Dylan himself with the impetus to start recording with an electric backing band.

The English Radio One and the French Première Chaîne provide news and information programming to most communities in Canada, regardless of size, on either the AM or FM band.

As a result, the band stopped working together and Hill started driving couples to their weddings in his own Rolls-Royce, just to make money to provide for his family.