Studio films with pure jazz scores are few and far between in this day and age. Unlike the ’60s when composers like Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin churned them out, most filmmakers gravitate toward ...

How big an impact can a film that wins four Oscars have on someone who doesn’t appear on screen in a single frame of that film? In the case of Antonio Sánchez, life-changing. The Mexico City native ...

As a musician used to working on the fringes of popular culture, Antonio Sanchez never anticipated that his skills as an improvisational jazz drummer would lead to Hollywood. Then director Alejandro ...

Drummer Antonio Sanchez’s score to the superheroes-never-die-they-just- move-to-Broadway film Birdman may just be the most in-sync and psychologically representative music you’ll hear in a film this ...

Antonio Sánchez, the virtuoso drummer and composer, can often be found on tour — tending rhythmic fires for guitarist Pat Metheny; leading Migration, his own dynamic post-bop band; or performing his ...

Watching Antonio Sánchez and Bad Hombre behind the Tiny Desk is witnessing an entire band exploring the rhythm of language. Fueled by Sánchez's propulsive drumming, the band both complements and acts ...