Sentences with phrase «best jazz drummer»

Wanting nothing less than to be the best jazz drummer in the world, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) travels to one of New York's most prestigious music conservatories and finds himself studying under the sarcastic, abrasive, and hostile tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons).

WHIPLASH Miles Teller plays a conservatory student who wants to be the best jazz drummer he can be.

Not exact matches

But the film — the story a young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of the school's fearsome maestro of jazz played by J.K. Simmons — would have to be a breakout hit to make the increasingly mainstream ranks of Oscar's big category.

He took lessons — from Freddy Gruber, a well - known Jazz drummer.

Both Woelffer and McChesney were using intuitive means to make their abstractions, and both were deeply influenced by indigenous art, especially works from Africa and the Americas, as well as improv - based musical forms, especially jazz — both men were drummers.

A keen drummer, he was a member and with Frank Wollny co-founder of the free jazz group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kjazz group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine KJazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kuhn.