Sentences with phrase «jazz drummers of»

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

As a teenage drummer, director Chazelle was himself selected for his New Jersey high school's nationally competitive jazz ensemble, whose conductor imposed a level of rigor, angst, and discipline few civilians ever experience.

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.

Part of its success has to do with the director's subtle feel for a jittery frame — more like a jazz drummer's brush strokes than fashionable twitchiness.

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.

The existence of relatives and friends here only serves to show the world in which the two main characters — jazz drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) and instructor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons)-- live in.

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.

Inform a flock of multiplex - goers that they're about to watch a movie about a young man training to become a jazz drummer and they'll start snoring loudly in your face.

Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single - minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East Coast music conservatory.

Whiplash is a film which had generated enormous audience enthusiasm and priceless word - of - mouth: its easily summarised, unusual - but - not - too - unusual premise is a great hook: the sadistic teacher torments the highly - strung jazz - drummer.

Unusually for his generation, Andrew is fascinated by jazz greats such as Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington: a photo of Buddy Rich holds pride of place on his bedroom wall, and he dreams of emulating the great drummer's exploits.

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.

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

Whiplash J.K. Simmons» tour de force as a sadistic music teacher is the highlight of this drama, about an aspiring jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and the mind - bending, soul - distorting pressure put on him.

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 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...

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.

The film follows a domineering teacher (Simmons) as he drives aspiring jazz drummer (Teller) to the edge of sanity.

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.

Achieving greatness as a drummer is Andrew's sole focus in life; his dorm walls are covered in photos of his hero, jazz percussionist Buddy Rich, and his social life consists of little more than the occasional movie date with his nebbishy single father (Paul Reiser), a high school English teacher and failed novelist whom Andrew both loves and dreads becoming.

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.

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

In Whiplash, we watch Teller's character become so consumed with ambition that he puts his dreams of being a jazz drummer ahead of all human relationships.

He is a 19 year - old kid and a bit of a loner with a dream to be a great jazz drummer.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

Coolidge is a jazz drummer, an amateur spelunker, and a generous contributor of poems and criticism to small magazines and presses in the English speaking world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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