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Recent Examples of soloist
The project gives the singer-songwriter his first top 10 smash on all of those purchase-only rosters as a soloist.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
By notching his eighth ruler on Regional Mexican Airplay, and fifth as a soloist, Muñoz joins two other solo singers who have achieved eight or more No. 1s in the 2020s decade.
—Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 7 May 2025
Compositions featuring his greatest soloists including Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Jimmy Hamilton, and Paul Gonsalves are portraits of artists that became archetypes for jazz.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
The soloists, alto Samoht and tenor Zebulon Ellis, rock the room.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
By notching his eighth ruler on Regional Mexican Airplay, and fifth as a soloist, Muñoz joins two other solo singers who have achieved eight or more No. 1s in the 2020s decade.
—Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 7 May 2025
Compositions featuring his greatest soloists including Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Jimmy Hamilton, and Paul Gonsalves are portraits of artists that became archetypes for jazz.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
The soloists, alto Samoht and tenor Zebulon Ellis, rock the room.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
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Anoushka’s accompanist that night was Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s foremost tabla drum players.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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The series is organized by McDaniel, a veteran Broadway music director and accompanist who also oversees the Cabaret & Performance conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
4 Dec. 2024
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She be accompanied by a five-piece group, led by ace pianist Sullivan Fortner, that includes Dušan Balarin on theorbo, a bass flute that has 14 strings and can measure more than six feet from end to end.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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The infection has been in the US news recently with the deaths of pianist Betsy Arakawa and actor Gene Hackman.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
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Imagine Jimi Hendrix also being a tuba virtuoso, or Andy Warhol also excelling on an Etch-A-Sketch.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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Dissatisfied with the quality of the day’s commercial recordings, Paul, who’d worked with pop stars including Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, and was a guitar virtuoso and bandleader, endeavored to push the practice forward — to make recording a kind of erudite art form.—
Erin Osmon,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2025
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Pianist Sonia Lee and flutist Pija Hocevar will perform at the Platt Library.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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The lineup includes three Grammy winners — saxophonist David Sanchez, bassist John Clayton and drummer Lewis Nash — along with pianist and six-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton and top San Diego flutist Holly Hofmann.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 May 2025
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Before that, a preconcert panel of Price scholars and current CSO composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery discussed the symphonist’s remarkable life and even more remarkable music.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2022
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A decade after basing a whole festival on Bruckner and minimalist master John Adams, Franz Welser-Most Thursday night at Severance Music Center juxtaposed the grand Austrian symphonist with Arnold Schoenberg, the father of serialism.—
Zachary Lewis,
cleveland,
25 Feb. 2022
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Osgood Perkins is staying in business with Neon, the indie outfit that released his features Longlegs and The Monkey and helped crown him as Hollywood’s latest horror maestro.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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The English performer is nonstop traveling for her roles in television and film and has worked with cinema maestros like Steven Spielberg (Ready Player One) and now, Jake Schreier.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
8 May 2025
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The piece, finished in 1947 by the French organist and composer, is based on the Catholic Mass for the Dead in Gregorian chant.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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Nicola, the elder daughter, is a church organist, and Easter, her younger sister, is a minister.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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The firing after a nearly 30-year run appeared to surprise Starkey, after reports that Daltrey was not happy with the drummer’s performance at a March Royal Albert Hall gig, complaining from stage that Starkey’s loud playing was throwing him off.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
27 May 2025
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Among the others believed to have been on the plane was Daniel Williams, the former drummer for Ohio metal band The Devil Wears Prada.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 May 2025
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“Soloist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soloist. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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