Alexander Huls is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire and other publications. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. It’s been a great year for jazz drums in the movies thanks to two fantastic (and most likely Oscar-bound) films: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash. Birdman is home to a wonderful, all-jazz drum score by Antonio Sanchez, with a hypnotic, constant beat that serves as the movie’s perpetually pounding heartbeat. The very subject of Whiplash is a young jazz drummer, aspiring to be the next Buddy…
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