Gable and the troupe's piano player hopped a freight train bound for Bend, Oregon, where the piano player had an uncle.
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Charlie's a really good piano player, he's a classically trained piano player, so that's been a cool asset to our band as well.
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Well, he's supposed to only have blinded the piano player.
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My hands are like the geography of a piano player.
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"Who told you you were a piano player?" he sneered.
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But our piano player, Raja Najib Azar, really owned the record.
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He had enormous hands, and was a self-taught piano player.
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Carmen Schentrup, 16, was a smart student and piano player, friends said.
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There's a piano player and the cocktails are delicious ($18.30 with tip).
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I was like, 'Oh, that's what happens to an old piano player.
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The piano player and Hammond organist tours with his band, the Funky Organizers.
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Wedren: You're a good musician and you've always been a good piano player.
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Hackett does this with her producer, who she says is an excellent piano player.
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My mom is an amazing classical piano player, she majored in voice in college.
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There was already a piano player, so at first Iyer was assigned the vibraphone.
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His earliest music gigs, he worked as a piano player, accompanying other more successful artists.
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" When she entered, carrying a bouquet of lilies, the piano player switched to "At Last.
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A self-described "terrible piano player," she started plunking around on an old Casio keyboard.
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Entertainment ran in the family: His father was a vaudeville performer, his mother a piano player.
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"I don't know if I know love no more," Holden sings before "Piano Player" fades out.
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" Mr. John, too: "As a piano player, I find it very hard to write up-tempo songs.
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A harp and piano player, Ms. Howard translates musical notes into jewelry made of stacked linen paper.
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Inside their private terminal, customers can enjoy a games room, sleep pods, and a private piano player.
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Luke Howard is a 34-year-old piano player who was dumped by his girlfriend of four months.
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His mother taught elementary school and his father, a self-taught stride piano player, owned a general store.
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The North Carolina writer Clyde Edgerton, who happens to be a crack piano player, would be providing accompaniment.
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The piano player was grinning ear to ear, as were a dozen bystanders who had joined in, including me.
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He's saved from immediate prosecution when the club's piano player, Valérie (Cathy Rosier), refuses to cooperate with the police.
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Mr. Phillips said that City Hall spent a total of $700 to pay the piano player and a composer.
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Lately, Iyer, who is forty-four and a Harvard professor, has been the most lauded piano player in jazz.
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One case report describes a piano player with Alzheimer's who could finish a song if someone started it for him.
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Fats Domino, the legendary New Orleans singer and piano player who took the '50s and '60s by storm ... is dead.
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Mr. Cook, a shy piano player from Kansas City, Mo., had recently moved to the city to explore musical theater.
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Ms. Sarkissian's father settled in near a piano player once there and offered a theory on marriage, and of patience.
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He worked with some of the great directors, among them François Truffaut in Tirez sur le pianiste ("Shoot the Piano Player").
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Akash (Ayushmann Khurrana) is a piano player who lost his sight as a teenager, but his handicap doesn't hinder his music.
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One of his sons is an avid piano player and was concerned the family's piano would be destroyed by the floodwaters.
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If you're looking for Latinx piano player who scored in the top percentile of the SAT, there's a list for that.
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The guy's a known piano player himself, and reportedly contributed to one of Meghan's earlier EPs ... being featured on two tracks.
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The most popular target is the ass of a dummy saloon piano-player; if you hit him, he bangs out a tune.
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He was turning himself into a different type of piano player, ripping open a portal into the world of scales and improvisation.
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His lovely "Piano Player" and the gliding couple of "Tango" have distant ancestors in the mechanical toys, one wearing a top hat.
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Not just my hands as a priest, or as a piano player, as a violin player, or Stephen Curry, the basketball player.
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The other thing we were dealing with was our piano player, Vincent [Edwards], left the band before we started writing that record.
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Rick's devoted piano player, SAM, is trying to keep up with them, but that is difficult as he is pushing his piano.
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Ms. McCray puts the mayor on speaker phone so he can listen as the two actors sing, accompanied by a piano player.
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When Ford appears as the piano player in the Mariposa saloon, he's accompanied by a gorgeous dog, which appears to be a greyhound.
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Cardi B's performance at the 61st annual Grammy Awards began with the CBS cameras focusing on an unlikely person: piano player Chloe Flower.
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Harvey S. Cohen Middletown, N.J. The United terminal at O'Hare in Chicago has a piano player in the hallway, and it is refreshing.
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"There was another place called Muhlenbrink's Saloon where everyone would go to see an old famous piano player named 'Piano Red,'" said Ball.
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After school, he became a piano player in a Buffalo, New York, rock band after meeting the band members at the Scientology center.
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" He also had a falling-out with Mr. Truffaut, with whom he had collaborated on "Shoot the Piano Player" and "The Soft Skin.
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During the arduous 15-month rebuilding, he continued to pay several dozen of his core staff members, including Mr. Salvador, the piano player.
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She was a junior composer who sang soprano for the 80-voice choir, and he was a sophomore piano player who sang bass.
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We had a piano player, we added backup singers, we had a full horn section for some shows, and so it was a revue.
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When the two stood near the piano player in the bar, Spacey reached over and began to rub the busboy's thigh, the complaint states.
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She's become friends with all sorts of people that she would have never otherwise met—from a French nudist, to an American piano player.
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That was just our piano player Rick Steff, who's been a session musician in Memphis forever and played with a ton of different people.
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Thomas A. Dorsey, the father of modern gospel, was a whorehouse piano player and the musical director of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, in Chicago.
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Could Carey, who according to both stories isn't a strong piano player, have actually constructed the melody on a Casio keyboard on her own?
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Later, as the two stood near the piano player in the bar, Spacey reached over and began to rub the busboy's thigh, the complaint states.
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"That's my boy… you know he was my piano player back in the day?" she told Philipps of John, who went by Reginald Dwight back then.
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When American-Sierra Leonean DJ and producer Boima Tucker first came across thumb piano player Sorie Kondi via a YouTube link in 2007, he was transfixed.
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In The Last Song, Cyrus played Ronnie, a talented, rebellious piano player from New York City who is sent to live with her father in Georgia.
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The one in "Women on Top" is about a female piano player who imagines a man beneath the piano, pleasuring her as she continues her music.
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" LEVI They played a few bars — and the piano player was fully in on it — because Jane goes, "And this is where Zach would come in.
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It was really a very upscale bar, and I used to go in there because I knew the piano player, and I lived in the neighborhood.
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Steinbach's son Christoph is famous in Austria as a boogie-woogie piano player, and his son-in-law is the race director for the women's World Cup.
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Two years after surgery, Knafo, a professional piano player, was traveling to Albany to urge lawmakers to pass legislation to protect patients from what she went through.
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You can save most of your boozing, though, for the magical bar car, a sumptuous yet cozy space with plush seating, a piano player and spirited sing-alongs.
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Ms. Saar's piece, "Stride Piano" (1993), is a film-noirish woodcut of a piano player, hat rakishly tilted on his head, with a cigarette and drink resting nearby.
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Mr. Keezer is the kind of straight-ahead piano player you wish for: multifaceted, responsive, constantly sifting through colors and shapes, bursting with a personal and sincere enthusiasm.
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His foil is his lackey/piano player/lover Bellamy (Robert M. Johanson), who responds to Swan's routine bouts of both affection and verbal abuse with wit and cynicism.
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But it took five years for blind Siera Leonean thumb piano player and singer Kondi to make it to America for a five-date tour via a Kickstarter campaign.
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Bowles' rep confirmed Kylie's pregnancy exclusively to PEOPLE in November, with the guitar, organ and piano player raving that "the whole family is super excited" about the new baby.
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Canlis is one of Seattle's highest-end restaurants, with a piano player who entertains customers at the bar and a four-course tasting menu that runs $135 a person.
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The course is available 24/7 and features nine modules (a total of 12 hours of content) that will take you from beginner to tolerable piano player in no time.
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The commitment to improvisation extends even to the instruments — he travels without a bass, preferring, like a piano player, to put himself at the mercy of what the venue provides.
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She's a performer, an organist for the church, a piano player, a piano teacher, she speaks all the time in public forums, she sings beautifully – it's where I got my soprano.
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As a piano player, he regards his lineage as descending through "James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Randy Weston, Bud Powell, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Alice Coltrane," he told me.
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This is when you do the entire show in a real theater free for the Broadway community, but without sets, lights or costumes — just a few props and a piano player.
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Ronnie – representing the Modern Era Artist – first made his mark as a piano player (responsible for keyboards on Elvis Presley's "Kentucky Rain") and was encouraged by Charley Pride to move to Nashville.
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Mr. Allison began his professional career as a piano player, at a time when his style — percussive and jaunty, carried along by a percolating beat — suited the sound of the jazz mainstream.
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The game's composer, Dan Golding, recorded the music and then chopped it up to create phrases that react to gameplay, as a live piano player might have done to Charlie Chaplin's slapstick.
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The use of music in film historically has been confined to on-screen music (a piano player in a bar) or off-screen music (a full 90-piece orchestra accompanying a love scene).
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One of the formative movie experiences of my own adolescence was seeing Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" and François Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player" on a weekday afternoon at the old Bleecker Street Cinema.
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Lehrer was (and is) a prodigiously talented piano player who, for a time, was active in bringing some of the most biting and hilarious satire songs to pop music in the 1950s and '60s.
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There's multiple factors occurring simultaneously—bass player, drummer, piano player, drummer, horn station—but you have to find value in each respective element, so they can shine at the same time without being overshadowed.
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Even the magnificent Hotel Moskva, a city landmark built in 1908 and where I stayed, had a piano player at breakfast, which really added to the atmosphere of gilded chandeliers and red velvet furniture.
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Born Otis Jackson, Jr., in Oxnard, California, Madlib is the son of musicians: his father was a singer and a jazz and soul session musician; his mother was a songwriter and a piano player.
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A few talents already stand out to Cowell, including Kodi Lee, a young singer and piano player who is blind and has autism, and Human Fuse, who has an act involving flames and a catapult.
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When Princess Margaret was growing up, she was known as the more independent, willful royal sister, but also was a talented piano player and well-practiced in scouting as a Girl Guide throughout her adolescence.
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The bar's French piano player broke out the handful of Irish tunes he knew offhand while guests clinked glasses of Guinness and shared worries about their loved ones enduring the coronavirus pandemic back at home.
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Leon Russell, then a hustling young session piano player, is behind the keyboards for the single's B-side, and another possibly apocryphal bit of L.A. musician lore has Ventures drummer Mel Taylor playing on it as well.
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While his character on Glee is known as a man of few words, Brad Ellis (known as "Brad the piano player" to fans) is speaking out about the recent death of his former cast mate, Mark Salling.
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His best-known film role was probably as a pianist with a mysterious past in François Truffaut's eccentric 1960 crime drama, "Shoot the Piano Player" — a part that Truffaut said he had written specifically for Mr. Aznavour.
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Unlike a show like Westworld, where a piano player literally dictates the plot (if you don't watch the show, then this makes no sense; it's fine), the characters in Sharp Objects are in directing the plot points themselves.
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You can also choose a quaint Parisian cafe, or a quiet bistro if you prefer, and additional options include introducing the sounds of rain outside, a crackling fireplace nearby, or even a piano player off in the distance.
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Cage created a length of time with no sound in it; a piano player does nothing but turn the score pages and periodically open and close the keyboard lid for the 4 minutes 33 seconds of the title.
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Being neither a singer, dancer nor piano player, Malek took voice, movement, piano and guitar lessons, and spent months studying archival footage of Mercury to capture his accent, his strutting stage demeanor and the way he commanded a microphone.
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Whether it's the piano player who ascends Robbie Williams' "Angels" toward heaven or the badass who blew the ostentatiously sexy saxophone riff into George Michael's "Careless Whisper," these men and women are the secret backbones of the music industry.
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Ali won Sunday for his role as piano player Don Shirley in Green Book, the controversial film that tells the story of the black musician's trip through the South in the 1960s with an Italian chauffeur played by Viggo Mortensen.
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But it's hard to remember that when your brain is trying to parse Cookie Monster serving cookies in front of glasses of Westworld's weird milk goo (#Milkworld), as a piano player covers the show's theme song in its signature style.
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An internationally recognized actor, he was also featured in over 60 films — including François Truffaut's 1960 New Wave classic Shoot the Piano Player, Candy (with Marlon Brando and Ringo Starr) and 1980's Academy Award-winning film The Tin Drum.
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Benton and Newman began working on a screenplay treatment with the pie-in-the-sky hope that they might entice French New Wave maestro, Francois Truffaut to direct it (by then, Truffaut had already made The 28 Blows and Shoot the Piano Player).
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Frequent programs like "Pop Show," with the charismatic host Ziwe Fumudoh, dedicated to original comic songs, regularly draw crowds; and traditional cabaret venues like Don't Tell Mama in Times Square have recently started weekend stand-up nights accompanied by a piano player.
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When they got there, she said, "it became pretty clear that that really wasn't the intention" — Guerrero began to make her uncomfortable, touching her lower back and putting a dollar bill in her jeans so she could request a song from a piano player.
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If you have something more specific in mind, if you want it medium or black and blue, then write your request on a sheet of paper, tear it into small pieces and throw them into the air when the piano player sings 'Happy Birthday.
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I think I'm going to do a book about New Orleans and maybe about Storyville in the 1890s, maybe about Lulu White, who was an octoroon, who opened a sporting house and hired Jelly Roll Morton to be the piano player, and Louis Armstrong.
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And not only does that industry involve people buying video games to play themselves, but there's also a rapidly growing subset of the population that watches other people game via streaming platforms – and they pay them, too, like you might tip a piano player at a bar.
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It opened as the Pooseepahtuck Club in 1935, and new management seemed always to bring a new name: Luckey's Rendezvous in the 1940s under Luckey Roberts, the composer and piano player who influenced Duke Ellington, then the Pink Angel in the 1950s under Lillian Lampkin, the current owner's mother.
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After showing up at the San Francisco home of her only remaining relative — Rosalie Mackintosh, a tough-as-nails madam (Jennifer Van Dyck) — she befriends the help: Mickey, a gay piano player (Kendal Sparks); Emmy Lou, a plucky prostitute (Nancy Anderson); and Louis, an upstanding bookkeeper (Christopher Borg).
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This tracking shot in Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player epitomizes the deft-hand ingenuity of Coutard, as well as showcasing his ability to adapt to his collaborator of the moment: In Alphaville, looming close ups and use of street lighting paved the way for the bleak neo-noir aesthetic of Bladerunner.
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After serving as the president of the University of Tennessee and President George H.W. Bush's education secretary, and losing two campaigns for president, Alexander was elected in 2002 to the Senate, where he's earned a reputation as the piano player who can get Democrats and Republicans singing from the same sheet.
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First of all, both of the 1-year-old Southern Californian's parents are musical – his father Justin, 35, is a piano player; and his mother, Shelana, 31, is a singer – and second of all, LJ is already a fiend on the drum kit at an age when most kids are figuring out how to walk.
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Philip Tonka, the hero of "Black Mad Wheel," is the piano player of a Motor City rock 'n' roll outfit called the Danes, who as the novel begins are a dozen years past the end of their service in World War II and enjoying the freedom, money and fame their music has brought them.
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" Carey admits to not being a great piano player, but says finding the melody was a "happy accident": "That part is something I'll always remember, just the quietness of being there in that room and playing and writing and changing a Christmas song into a love song [...] and kind of making it all one thing.
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Though Mr. Aznavour's fame has come largely from his work as a singer-songwriter and actor — he has appeared in more than 60 films, including Francois Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player," in which he played the title role, and the French-language version of "Up," in which he did the voice of the curmudgeon widower — he has a lifelong fondness for stage musicals.
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Some are fairly straightforward; at other times, Mr. Tavernier pleasurably meanders as when, after a mention of boarding school, he moves onto topics like François Truffaut and "Shoot the Piano Player" ("It's the only film I saw booed on the Champs-Élysées"); Henri Langlois, a founder of the Cinémathèque Française; André Malraux's "L'Espoir"; other critics ("we wanted to decide for ourselves"); and the director Edmond T. Gréville.
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Some of the things admitted as victim-impact evidence, including testimony that the victim was an excellent piano player, was "good honest hardworking God fearing people," was a "smart person with higher IQ than others in her family" or had "a 3.8 grade point average," would appear to advance the fundamentally anti-democratic notion that the lives of the eloquent, the intelligent, the beautiful, the cherished are more worthy of the full protection of the law than others.
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Is it possible that despite the milestones and piles of Grammys (the now-defunct female R&B vocal performance category seemed invented just for her; she won the first eight), despite famously having been crowned the greatest singer of all time in a vast Rolling Stone survey, despite being Aretha Franklin, the Greatest was also rather underrated — as a piano player, as an arranger (who had a greater imagination when it came to coloring a song with backing singers), as an album artist?
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When I was a little kid in Chicago Jimmy Yancey, the great blues and boogie-woogie piano player, worked as a groundskeeper at Comiskey Park, where the White Sox played— Years later, I listened to his records and did the best I could to imitate his left hand, not knowing he'd played baseball for the Chicago All-Americans in the Negro Leagues, throwing down his best curves and sliders on both the black and white keys, remembering how he'd appeared as a tap dancer and pianist in Europe and at Carnegie Hall, then kept his day job working at Comiskey for twenty-five years, until he died in 1951, sweeping the infield
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