Sentences with phrase «jazz drummer at»

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.

Not exact matches

Buttonholing Andrew at rehearsal break, Fletcher shares the ur - myth of this film: how Charlie Parker's lackluster showing at a jam session made drummer Philly Joe Jones hurl a cymbal at him, thus motivating the practice sessions that produced jazz's Ultimate Killing Machine.

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.

At the time of the movie's release, the common refrain concerning Chazelle's high school past as a jazz drummer was that it helped him to imbue his movie — about a musician — with a sense of musicality and rhythm.

, Damien Chazelle's film about a young jazz drummer and his tutor, which won the audience and jury prizes at Sundance this year and has been selected for Cannes» Director's Fortnight this year.

This year's Sundance pick looks to be Whiplash, Damien Chazelle's film about a young jazz drummer and his tutor, which won the audience and jury prizes at Sundance this year and has been selected for Cannes» Director's Fortnight this year.

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

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

WHIPLASH is not just the name of Hank Levy's eccentrically metered jazz tune, but describes the dangerous dynamic between a young drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and his bullying instructor Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) at an exclusive music conservatory.

Concert: David Virelles at Jazz Standard On Gnosis, the full - length album on ECM Records from Cuban - born pianist David Virelles in collaboration with the drummer Román Díaz and the Nosotros Ensemble, traditional Afro - Cuban rhythms are cut with more dissonant musical gestures informed by contemporary improv and classical music.

Chris Corsano is a drummer who has been working at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant - rock, and noise music since the late 1990's.

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.