Sentences with phrase «jazz drummer who»

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He is absolutely terrifying as a sadistic jazz teacher who pushes Miles Teller's talented young drummer to the brink of greatness / madness.

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

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.

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.