Sentences with phrase «jazz drummer played»

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.

Not exact matches

Little rockers can feel like real drummers in free play mode as they bang out new rhythms with the... MORE included drum sticks to four different musical genres: jazz, rock, dance and pop.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.