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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
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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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Celebrities including Naomi Campbell and Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick, looked on as superstar pianist Lang Lang played classic Disney tunes accompanied by a 107-piece orchestra and a 100-voice choir floating on a pontoon on the Arabian Gulf.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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His mother, Ethel, was a pianist and introduced him to music.—
Suzy Evans,
HollywoodReporter,
15 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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Barron plans to close out the run on Sunday with the West Coast premiere of a new chamber work with harmonica player Grégoire Maret, flutist Elena Pinderhughes and cellist Noah Johnson.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
11 Apr. 2025
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My son swayed gently between my legs, still wearing last night’s jammies, azure eyes trained on the flutist’s quivering embouchure.—
Ashlea Halpern,
AFAR Media,
30 Apr. 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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Barlow, 69, had to find an organist to cover for her at Easter mass, expedite doctor appointments to get her partner’s torn bicep checked out and drive 19 hours east.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Music runs in her family – her father was an organist for the San Diego Chargers and Clippers, and her mother once sang with Aretha Franklin in her gospel days.—
Barbara Bry,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 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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Daniel Williams, a former drummer for the band The Devil Wears Prada, was one other victim, the music group previously confirmed in an Instagram post.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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“Soloist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soloist. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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