When choosing a set of shells, a jazz drummer may want smaller maple shells, while a rock drummer may want larger birch shells.

When Brubeck signed with Fantasy Records, he thought he had a half interest in the company and he worked as a sort of A & R man for it, encouraging the Weiss brothers to sign other contemporary jazz performers, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Red Norvo.

When jazz guitar players improvise, they may use the scales, modes, and arpeggios associated with the chords in a tune's chord progression.

When guitarist Charlie Christian used the amplified electric guitar to improvise horn-like, single-line melodies in the jazz context, jazz and blues musicians became interested in the potential of the louder, new electric guitar.

When jazz guitar players improvise, they use the scales, modes, and arpeggios associated with the chords in a tune's chord progression.

When jazz guitarists play chords underneath a song's melody or another musician's solo improvisations, it is called " comping ", short for " accompanying " The accompanying style in most jazz styles differs from the way chordal instruments accompany in many popular styles of music.

The team was named for the great jazz song most identified with New Orleans – " When the Saints Go Marching In ", and it was no coincidence that the franchise's official birth was announced on November 1, which is the Catholic All Saints ' Day.

" When my grandmother found out that I was playing jazz in one of the sporting houses in the District, she told me that I had disgraced the family and forbade me to live at the house ... She told me that devil music would surely bring about my downfall, but I just couldn't put it behind me.

When New York cabarets featured jazz, they tended to focus on famous vocalists like Nina Simone, Bette Midler, Eartha Kitt, Peggy Lee, and Hildegarde rather than instrumental musicians.

When Hauser delivered the new instrument Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser to his U. S. representative and close friend Sophocles Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student, the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd, who used it on several records.

When Eric got sick on that date Berlin, and him being black and a jazz musician, they thought he was a junkie.

" When Patchen recorded his jazz-poetry readings, one of the resulting albums drew praise from the poet John Ciardi who wrote that " Patchen's poetry is in many ways a natural for jazz accompaniment.

When the horn-head passes by, the drum solo starts, then cuts straight to the creature rising out of the flower and playing a jazz tune on his nose.

Dodds described his impressions of New York as a place where people listened to jazz rather than danced to it: " When I first went to New York it seemed very strange to have people sitting around and listening rather than dancing.

" When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945 ," jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, " drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear.

When the tour ended in Chicago in the fall, Calloway decided to remain in Chicago with his sister, who had an established career as a jazz singer in that city.

When Columbia Records producer George Avakian gave jazz arranger Gil Evans a copy of the Spanish World Library LP, Miles Davis and Evans were " struck by the beauty of pieces such as the ' Saeta ', recorded in Seville, and a panpiper's tune (' Alborada de Vigo ') from Galicia, and worked them into the 1960 album, Sketches of Spain.

Following an exclusive swing concert at the Berlin Tränenpalast in October, No Angels soon followed with a DVD and a live album, entitled When the Angels Swing, featuring their biggest hits and selected songs from their first two albums, re-arranged by Grammy Award-nominated jazz musician Till Brönner.

When knowledgeable critics compose their " greatest of all time " lists, the jazz piano roster usually places Johnson in the company of his better known peers: Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson.

When Ellington moved to New York City, he inaugurated a legion of jazz musicians that did the same and moved the center of jazz's development from Chicago to New York.

When ' Fatha ' went off the air, I went to bed .” But Hines ' most notable " student " was Art Tatum from Toledo, Ohio, six years younger than Hines and now often regarded as the greatest pianist jazz has so far produced.

When jazz guitar players improvise, they use the scales, modes, and arpeggios associated with the chords in a tune's chord progression.

When forte is indicated, the pianist is meant to evoke a sense of wickedness, thus depicting the antagonist.

When Taneyev was unable to arrange this, he instead arranged for composer and pianist Reinhold Glière to spend the summer of 1902 in Sontsovka teaching Prokofiev.

The When Harry Met Sally ... soundtrack album features American singer and pianist Harry Connick, Jr .. Bobby Colomby, the drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, was a friend of Reiner's and recommended Harry Connick, Jr., giving the director a tape of the musician's music.

When he learns that she is pregnant, and his friend Elton gets arrested for having robbed a gas station a year earlier, he quits his job and leaves for Los Angeles where his sister, Partita ( Smith ), also a pianist, is making a recording.

When they are playing the second note of the figure at the same time the other pianist is playing the first note, the two pianists play at the same tempo again.

When he was ten his mother took him to Moscow during the summer holidays for a course of ten piano lessons with Alexander Dubuque, a pupil of the Irish pianist and composer John Field.

When newly arrived in New York, Parker briefly worked as a dishwasher in a Manhattan restaurant where Tatum was performing and often listened to the legendary pianist.

During her tenure at Columbia through 1953, Vaughan was steered almost exclusively to commercial pop ballads, a number of which had chart success: " That Lucky Old Sun ", " Make Believe ( You Are Glad When You're Sorry )", " I'm Crazy to Love You ", " Our Very Own ", " I Love the Guy ", " Thinking of You " ( with pianist Bud Powell ), " I Cried for You ", " These Things I Offer You ", " Vanity ", " I Ran All the Way Home ", " Saint or Sinner ", " My Tormented Heart ", and " Time ", among others.

* When Roy is sitting in the hotel talking with the mayor's daughters, we hear " Ain't misbehavin " being played by the pianist in the background.

When he was only a year old, his mother — herself a concert pianist and former pupil of Theodor Leschetizky — died of tuberculosis.

When The Jazz Messengers split in 1956, Mobley continued on with pianist Horace Silver for a short time, although he did work again with Blakey some years later, when the drummer appeared on Mobley's albums in the early 1960s.

When pianist Artur Schnabel undertook his pioneering complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas in the 1930s, he told EMI that if he didn't complete the cycle, they should have Kempff complete the remainder-even though the two pianists took noticeably different approaches to the composer ( for example, Schnabel preferred extremely fast or slow tempos, while Kempff preferred moderate ones ).

When he was nine, Smith won a Philadelphia radio talent contest as a boogie-woogie pianist.

When pianist Ralph Berkowitz was asked if Vladimir Horowitz had the greatest technique of all the pianists he had heard, Berkowitz replied that Horowitz indeed was the supreme master of the technical parts of performance, but one older era pianist was his equal-Hofmann.

When the musicians from the Minton's band moved to different projects, Clarke began working with a young pianist and composer John Lewis and vibraphonist Milt Jackson.

When Cesar " Pupy " Pedroso, their pianist and founding member, left the band in 2002 he founded his own band Pupy y los que son son, which is likely a name with a triple-entendre.

When his publicly expressed satisfaction upon the execution of pianist Karlrobert Kreiten in September 1943 became known to a wider public, he was forced to retire in 1987.

When asked to explain his unusual choice of material for a classical pianist, O ' Riley has often quoted Duke Ellington's statement that " there are two kinds of music.

When Radio City Music Hall opened, Gould was hired as the staff pianist.

When Branford Marsalis assumed the high-visibility role of bandleader for NBC TV's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Kirkland became the band's pianist.

When founding member Rob Burger ( the trio's accordionist and pianist ) left the trio in late 2004, Mark Orton and Carla Kihlstedt replaced him with both Goldberg and Parkins, presenting a new, though closely related, ensemble — the Tin Hat Quartet — for two short concert tours in the U. S. in January and April 2005.

When he was 16, he made his debut as a concert pianist with Béla Bartók's third piano concerto.