From Anzonio Sanchez’s twitter feed, here’s a video of him commenting on some drumming performances in movies, including School of Rock, Sound of Metal, Whiplash, and some other things. Most of the examples don’t have […]
Category: Whiplash the movie
More Rational Funk
It’s testimony to the lameness of the Internet— not my readers, who are awesome, but all the rest of that rabble— that the videos in Bad Plus drummer Dave King’s Rational Funk series mostly get […]
Gratuitous Whiplash gif o’ the day: double time swing-off!
Remember, it took a couple of hours of movie-reality time to declare this guy the loser. Feel free to share it, with a link.
Donald Fagen on Whiplash
I’m kind of done with this movie, but I’ll keep sharing choice quotes about it when they come up. Here’s Donald Fagen: “Last night some of the guys in the band were talking about that […]
A crappy victory lap
DEP’T OF CORRECTIONS: I thought he was going to say “Come on, swing, you mother— SWIIIIIING! YEAH! YEAAAH!”, but in the actual movie he saidthe only stupider cliché possible: “Faster! FASTER!” By the way, I don’t want […]
Whiplash drinking game
Waitaminit, 3&2&? What the hell are you writing in a school chart, and why are you doing it in ink? Well. I finally saw the movie Whiplash, and I’ll say it definitely exceeded my expectations in the magnitude of […]
George Colligan sees Whiplash
Jazz educators respond to the makers of Whiplash, who are represented by the hapless trombonist. UPDATE: Oh, here’s another one, from Jazz Is the Worst, a blog that is attracting a lot of attention in […]
Micheal Shrieve on Whiplash
I’m not going to say anything more about the new hit drumming/jazz education melodrama Whiplash until I’ve actually seen it, but I will let you know about another great drummer, Michael Shrieve, sharing his thoughts […]
Erskine on Whiplash!
If you don’t know your subject well enoughto convey the real emotion of it, there’s always this. This is fun— they’ve interviewed Peter Erskine in re: the new smash sensation amazingly great jazz drumming education […]
“Whiplash“ reviews coming in
The Keanu firing his gun up in the air and going AHHH scene of the movie. Well, the sensational jazz education/drumming melodrama Whiplash is now in theaters at last. You’ll recall I abused it pretty […]
Here it comes
Another clip from the jazz education melodrama Whiplash has been released: Pretty soon you’re going to be able to pay money to see the whole thing.
Oh, I don’t know…
Probable dialogue: “Come on, swing, you mother— SWIIIIIING! YEAH! YEAAAH!” So, I hear the big hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Whiplash, a movie about the tumultuous relationship of an abusive, hard-driving jazz […]