A contemporary jazz powerhouse creating ruminant drum collages.
Antonio Sánchez: The Session Musicians
The film composer is an improvising drummer for all seasons.
About Antonio Sánchez
Artist Biography
Since arriving in New York City in 1999, multi-Grammy winning drummer, composer, and bandleader Antonio Sanchéz has made himself an indispensable part of the international jazz discussion. Though he has appeared on hundreds of recordings from a wide range of musicians, he is best known for his nine-album working relationship with guitarist Pat Metheny. Further, he has worked as a composer in film and television. He wrote the Grammy-winning original score for the 2014 Oscar-awarded film Birdman, and has also scored the Epix TV series Get Shorty. He has issued a dozen widely acclaimed albums under his own name including 2007's Migration, 2014's Three Times Three, 2015's Meridian Suite, 2017's Grammy-winning sociopolitical electronica & drums exploration Bad Hombre, 2018's Channels of Energy with the WDR Big Band, 2019's Lines in the Sand, and 2022's Shift (Bad Hombre, Vol. 2).
Hometown
Mexico City, Mexico
Genre
Jazz
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