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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...

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Otto Preminger extracts a powerful performance from Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, a former drug addicted card dealer just out of detox and trying to establish a new career as a jazz drummer.

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, the overwhelmingly riveting second feature from young (born 1985) writer / director Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) opens with a scene of an aspiring jazz drummer, Andrew — played with searing commitment by rising star Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now)-- rehearsing in an empty studio space.

The story of a talented young jazz drummer and his cruelly sadistic mentor features powerful performances from Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons and editing so intricate and masterful, it feels like jazz itself.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

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

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.

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.

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.

The simple, elegant systems favor chance over expressiveness, an aesthetic that Mr. Gaines, once a jazz drummer, picked up from John Cage.

Spin some melodic prog rock like Disperse's last record and you'll be able to clearly pick out every ghost note from the drummer's cymbal work and enjoy the nuanced pick attack during the jazz - influenced guitar and bass solos.