Antonio Sanchez

Yikes - Someone please tell me there is another thread attached to his name. He deserves far more recognition than a 4-year old thread!

Anyway, saw him last night and I was completely blown away by his playing with the Metheny trio. I have had the good fortune to see many of the jazz greats, and I've got to say that very few play with the stylistic range, power and intensity that he does. Although his chops are out of this world, what really impresses me is incredible use of dynamics. I saw him use pretty much every surface of his brushes, rods, sticks, and hands to generate all kinds of unique sounds on his cymbals and drums. Although Metheny and Scott Colley were great, Sanchez played at another level entirely.

Unless you have been living under a rock these past few years, you already know he composed the Birdman soundtrack. Equally awesome are his Three Times Three and Meridian Suite albums.

Seriously, check this guy out.
 
striker said:
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Dude’s great, huh? I like the scratchy thing he did with the stick on the cymbal. A guy I knew who ended up gigging with Diana Ross used to scratch a drum key on his cymbals in lieu of wind chimes, and it was so much better than wind chimes. Sherwood Mobley. I believe he’s dead now.

Sure would hate to be his tech, though. He’s as bad about scrunching as I am, and with all that stuff, his tolerances have to be super small.
 
Drums only commercial clip.

New Lacoste add campaign with music composed and performed by Antonio Sanchez​

 
I have seen the movie but did not know that he did the drums only soundtrack for it.

The story behind the iconic 'Birdman' soundtrack​


 
I admire his talent and vocabulary, but after reading a lot of hype I bought his “Bad Hombre Vol II” album, and it is almost unlistenable. It’s a gratuitous mess of self-congratulatory cacophony. I was so let down because the featured guests are incredible and Sanchez is the wunderkind, but damn they needed an editor or someone to make it less of a pretentious collage and more of an enjoyable selection of music.
 
spleeeeen said:
He's doing a tour where he is accompanying the Birdman film by playing the soundtrack live. I'll be going to see it when he comes to town next month.
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It will be kind of like the silent era movie theaters. They play the silent movie and the live band is sitting at the front of the theater playing the soundtrack music live.
 
striker said:
It will be kind of like the silent era movie theaters. They play the silent movie and the live band is sitting at the front of the theater playing the soundtrack music live.
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Yes, I like that it has that vibe. The local symphony did something similar with a Harry Potter movie. I'm not a big fan but went with my wife and daughter who are, and it was really cool to see and hear the orchestra play all of the music.
 
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