How To Use Joplin In A Sentence
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When you get there, a jazz group is quietly playing Scott Joplin to an appreciative audience lounging on the grass.
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It doesn't require a great leap of imagination to detect what Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, Carly Simon and his second wife, Rita Coolidge, saw in him.
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Janis Joplin is the only artist at the top of her game; most of the other groups give lackluster and bland performances of their songs.
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Picture your humble narrator reading a book, grooving to Janis Joplin being played over the speakers, nursing a cup of coffee and digging into a fantastic chicken pesto crepe, and doing his best to resist the potatoes with sour cream.
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Listen now as Joshua Rifkin plays Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag
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I got on the phone to Inspector Joplin at Scotland Yard.
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Janis Joplin is the only artist at the top of her game; most of the other groups give lackluster and bland performances of their songs.
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It definitely puts his performances of Scott Joplin's rags in a different light!
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When you get there, a jazz group is quietly playing Scott Joplin to an appreciative audience lounging on the grass.
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Joplin was a thin and weedy boy, who seemed to always be wearing a plain white shirt and simple trousers, and the same gray cloak draped over his shoulder.
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According to Slotover, Jopling, a good friend to both Hugh Grant and Allen's father, the hell-raising actor Keith, epitomises the lack of class snobbery he sees in the contemporary art world.
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Keith Joplin, chairman of the chamber, said the event aimed to help put the area on the map with the aid of its most famous culinary export.
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We're hard at work on a new show for White Cube, run by the lovely Jay Jopling.
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Brent, with four Blues Foundation 2009 Blues Music Awards nominations, is a piano-playing blueswoman who's been described as "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin.
Undefined
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Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.
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Scars Of Sweet Paradise is worth reading as a slice of cultural history, even if one has no interest in Joplin.
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He died at age 28 of a drug overdose, I believe the same year that Janis Joplin similarly aged, also died of a drug overdose.
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Jopling's first became a name to conjure with outside the stylish art world once he began being photographed at high society parties, invariably accessorised with trendy black-framed glasses and his vivacious former wife, Sam Taylor-Wood.
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Scott Joplin: American composer and piano player famous for his ragtime compositions was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1867.
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Early 20th century belter Bessie Smith was buried in a pauper's grave until '60s rock stalwart Janis Joplin bought her a marker.
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I had heard he'd been killed shortly after graduating from high school in a knife fight at the last remaining whorehouse in our little hometown in Missouri, whose red light district dated from the 1860′s when Scott Joplin played ragtime for cowboys with money to burn after they'd been paid for driving cattle up from Texas on the Chisolm Trail.
Stimulating the Dead
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Another was almost getting thrown up on by Janis Joplin curbside of the Fillmore Auditorium.
Gathering No Moss (The Boomer Blog)
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We mentioned player pianos brieflyand recently in a story about the musician Scott Joplin and his invention of ragtime music in Sedalia, Missouri.
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Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
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"Trouble in Mind" is one of the bluesiest tunes recorded by Joplin.
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I got on the phone to Inspector Joplin at Scotland Yard.
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Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
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Noa; my missus did not loike me to chaffer much with neighbour Joplin, for she was but a bad 'un, -- pretty fease, too.
Lucretia — Volume 06
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A golden couple is always worth more than the sum of its parts and Mr and Mrs Jopling's presence seemed to validate the "nowness" of any event.
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The flight from Joplin turns into a shouting match between Bonnie and Blanche, as moll and preacher's daughter collide.
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However, I gulped down my scruples with the morning cocktail which we all took at the bar of the Widow Joplin, and listened patiently while Mr. Rucker gasconaded about the wonderful shots he had made, the tremendous leaps his horse had taken over gullies and logs.
Dialect Tales
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Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann.
Categorical denials
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Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann.
Categorical denials
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Scott Joplin and W.C. Handy, among other composers of early jazz, worked with a new sort of syncopation that drew, somewhat, on the rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance music that became fashionable enough in 19th-century Europe that it provided the lilting bass line for the famous aria in Bizet 's Carmen.
When Cuba Invaded America
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Jopling has described his work as a "means of establishing a bridge between attitudes"; between, that is, the moneyed establishment and the avant garde.
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She sounds like the unisexual mating of Dinah Washington and Janis Joplin.
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She has a startling voice, a throaty roar somewhere between Janis Joplin and Mavis Staples.
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Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
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The Joplins moved to Texarkana, Texas sometime after eighteen seventy-five and Scott grew up there.
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As Joplin famously noted of all his compositions, "It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast," while his concert waltz "Bethena" adds the direction "cantabile" - "as if singing.
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Janis Joplin is fined $200 for violating local profanity and obscenity laws for her performance after a concert in Tampa, Florida.
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Tough to imagine Big Mama Thornton or Janis Joplin belting out that line.
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