Sentences with phrase «jazz drummer»

The film stars Miles Teller as a talented young jazz drummer who is pushed past his potential by a drill sergeant - like instructor (J.K. Simmons).

Talking about his new film Whiplash in which he plays an aspiring jazz drummer who's both tortured and inspired by his brilliant teacher, Teller tells W, «When I first read Whiplash, I was feeling dead inside.

Teller plays an aspiring jazz drummer who is at odds with his intimidating instructor, played by J.K. Simmons.

Andrew Cyrille is one of the greatest free jazz drummers of his generation.

Andrew dreams of being a great jazz drummer in the vein of Buddy Rich.

The feature — shot in 19 days — follows ambitious jazz drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and his willingness to be emotionally and physically abused in the pursuit of greatness.

He's a devotee of the great jazz drummer Buddy Rich, and has ambitions to be just as skilled and famous.

A pedagogical thriller and an emotional S&M two - hander, Whiplash is brilliantly acted by Miles Teller as an eager jazz drummer at a highly competitive music academy and J.K. Simmons as the teacher whose method of terrorizing his students is beyond questionable even when it gets results.

Rising star, Miles Teller (Divergent, 2014) plays Andrew Neyman, an ambitious 19 - year old jazz drummer, whose one - track mind is constantly vying for a top chair in his elite New York City music school, Schaffer Conservatory.

When he returned, he worked with local teens training them as puppeteers to present «Every Beat of My Heart,» a story segment from Rythm Mastr, as a live performance with musical accompaniment by jazz drummer Kahil El» Zabar.

Like jazz drummers knocking out a riff, each chimp seems to have a signature beat.

iconically cool and laidback jazz drummer from New Orleans... in Cali now to run a friends cultivation centers to make sure he isnt raising the 12 - 20 % crap that everyone grows in this state... wouldnt let my pet billygoat eat this chemical laiden crap...

Language: English Genre: Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Damien Chazelle Actors: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist Plot: A stern teacher helps mold a struggling young drummer who is working to become a top jazz drummer.

The untitled prints are all of the same image of legendary jazz drummer.

In the winter months that followed an exhaustive tour in support of her 1975 experimental album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns and her romantic split with jazz drummer John Guerin, Joni Mitchell was eag...

He meets his match, or possibly his ideal pupil, in the form of Andrew, a would - be jazz drummer played with self - possession and flair by Miles Teller.

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).

He then convened a group of Columbus teenagers to train as puppeteers in order to present Every Beat of My Heart (a story from the Rythm Mastr narrative sequence) as a live performance in the Wexner Center galleries with musical accompaniment by acclaimed jazz drummer Kahil El» Zabar.

In this art - making workshop led by artist Mark Joshua Epstein, visitors are invited to create collages with a variety of media in response to a live performance by the preeminent jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille.

Synopsis: A talented young jazz drummer experiences a trial by fire when he's recruited by a ferocious instructor whose unyielding search for perfection may... [MORE]

Two Oscar - worthy virtuoso performances lead the way: Miles Teller as an indefatigable jazz drummer who pounds the sticks until his fingers bleed, and J.K. Simmons as his barbaric instructor.

An aspiring jazz drummer taking classes at a prestigious, fictitious music conservatory in New York City, Andrew yearns to be legendary — the heir apparent to Buddy Rich, whose work he religiously studies and whose face he plasters across the walls of his dormitory.

Set in an esteemed and antagonistic east coast music conservatory, Andrew Nyman (Miles Teller, exceptional) is a high - reaching and determined jazz drummer who wants to be nonpareil.

Miles Teller plays Andrew Neiman, an aspiring jazz drummer attending Shaffer Conservatory in New York City.

Shot in just over two weeks, the second feature from 29 - year - old writer - director Damien Chazelle stars Miles Teller as Andrew, a gifted jazz drummer seduced into a world of punishing exactitude by his brutal conservatoire teacher, Terrence Fletcher (Simmons).

In this surprisingly emotional and powerful musical drama from Damien Chazzelle, Miles Teller has grand ambitions of becoming one of the world's elite jazz drummers, and J.K. Simmons» unforgettable Fletcher has every intention of breaking those dreams into teeny, tiny little pieces.

Whiplash stars Miles Teller as Andrew, as aspiring young jazz drummer studying at a New York conservatory.

Andrew (Miles Teller) is an aspiring jazz drummer lucky enough to be accepted into a prestigious music conservatory.

In the movie, a student jazz drummer, 19 - year - old Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), is a first - year student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory music school.

Miles Teller (Two Night Stand, That Awkward Moment) stars as Andrew Neyman, a freshman at a highly prestigious New York music school trying to learn to be a professional jazz drummer who gets drafted by the school's most esteemed music instructor, Terence Fletcher (Simmons, Barefoot), into his band featuring la crème de la crème among future music superstars.

Miles Teller is outstanding as the driven trainee - jazz drummer protagonist, but his show's nevertheless almost stolen by J.K. Simmons» incendiary turn as his bullying mentor Fletcher, making «not quite my tempo» one of the most terrifying lines of the year.

Andew (Teller) is a young jazz drummer on his journey to becoming «one of the greats.»

Mickey Rooney is a luckless jazz drummer who gets in a bad fix trying to help Hollywood hopeful Sally Forrest.

African American jazz drummer David «Panama» Albert Francis first heard stories of magical island drums from his Haitian father.

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

The performance features jazz drummer Eliot Zigmund, Ed MacEachen on guitar, and Mike Eckroth on the organ.

Titled «Planatation Lullabies,» the Oct. 13 collaboration featured multidisciplinary artist and jazz drummer Mikel Avery and soprano Ellaina Lewis.

The show is dedicated to jazz drummer Paul Motian.

Founded during the spring of 2009 as a means to procrastinate while preparing for his doctoral candidacy exam, this blog is maintained by Canadian Jazz drummer and educator Jon McCaslin.

Darrin enjoys running, weight training, hockey, golf, cycling and photography and is also an occasional jazz drummer.

Filmmaker Damien Chazelle's powerful second feature, «Whiplash,» explores the disturbing relationship between an aspiring 19 - year - old jazz drummer, Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), determined to rise to the top of the countr...

Location: Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater In this art - making workshop led by artist Mark Joshua Epstein, visitors are invited to create collages with a variety of media in response to a live performance by the preeminent jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille.

Whiplash Director: Damien Chazelle Stars: Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser Synopsis: A young musician struggles to make it as a top jazz drummer.

And Simmons, for me, most closely resembles the legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich (one of Whiplash's touchstone figures) in that famous secret recording made of him relentlessly berating his musicians aboard their tour bus after a show: «Everybody can hear your fuckin» clams out there!

He studied fine art and graphic design in the late 1960s, then in 1971 — 72 participated as guitarist and flautist in the first improvisation workshops led by jazz drummer John Stevens.

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

Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single - minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory.Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school.

Miles Teller plays Andrew, a 19 - year - old music conservatory student who is determined to become a great jazz drummer.

It follows a domineering teacher (J.K. Simmons) as he drives aspiring jazz drummer (Miles Teller) to the edge of sanity.

Graves is best known as a pioneering free - jazz drummer who, in the 1960s, developed an astonishingly rapid and complex polyrhythmic style heard on records with Albert Ayler, Sonny Sharrock, Paul Bley, and many others.