Jazz Articles about Antonio Sanchez

Antonio Sanchez: Migration

by Elliott Simon
January 8, 2008

Few young musicians have enough juice to attract both pianist Chick Corea and guitarist Pat Metheny to their debut release. Drummer Antonio Sanchez shows how with extraordinary artistry combined with exceptional technique on Migration. Saxophonists Chris Potter and David Sanchez can unquestionably blow bop and, along with bassist Scott Colley, they supply the necessary musicianship and creativity that nails this session. Sanchez has been Metheny's drummer of choice for several years and Colley is likewise not new to this rarefied ...

Antonio Sanchez: Migration

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 7, 2007

Sorprende l’inizio. Un lungo brano di Chick Corea nel quale il pianista di Chelsea suona come da tempo non si era abituati a sentire, rimandandoci per intensità emotiva, arditezza e fluidità di fraseggio, ad un capolavoro come “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs“. Sorprende la combinazione di due tra i più formidabili tenoristi oggi in circolazione come Chris Potter e David Sanchez. Niente sterili virtuosismi o pirotecnici esibizionismi ma un’attenzione alle geometrie, agli intrecci reciproci, alla bellezza del suono senza ...

Antonio Sanchez: Migration

by Doug Collette
November 3, 2007

Antonio Sanchez' Migration overflows with a bracing jazz music that reinvigorates conventions and renews traditions. It bodes well for this extraordinary drummer's future as a bandleader and composer of note.

The freewheeling imagination with which a track such as “Ballade teems is a direct reflection of Sanchez' own playing style. Yet he never dominates the proceedings merely to assert himself as the leader. Even when he is prominent, as when he so emphatically opens Joe Henderson's ...

Antonio Sanchez: Migration

by AAJ Staff
September 21, 2007

The desert has a story hidden in its eye. Many things take up its plot: the earth, the ever-changing sky, those that pass through it. Antonio Sanchez's debut, Migration, deftly evokes the life of the desert as an allegory for the journey within all of us.

Sanchez climbed to prominence in the Pat Metheny Group, whose eponymous leader adds his talents to his drummer's first work. This is not to imply that Sanchez hasn't made burnished musical relationships of his ...

Antonio Sanchez: Migration

by John Kelman
August 26, 2007

These days it seems that too many young artists are jumping into the fray as leaders too soon. They may have admirable technique, but they're often still searching for a voice, and would served to wait a little longer before taking that all-important leap. That's not the case with Antonio Sanchez. Since emerging in the late 1990s, the drummer has racked up a remarkable number of significant associations, recording and/or touring with artists including Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden ...

Antonio Sanchez: Conversations with the Music

by AAJ Staff
June 15, 2006

Music can range in its meanings and expression from the sacred song of the medicine man to the 2:00 AM syncopated notes in a smoky Village bar, but why do we do it? What use does it serve us? This is a first in a series of interviews with musicians about the nature of our relationship to music, particularly improvisational jazz.Antonio Sanchez could be a poster child for what happens when you mix equal measures of extraordinary talent, ...

Miguel Zenon: Jibaro

by Brian P. Lonergan
August 16, 2005

Jibaro consists of ten original compositions by the young Puerto Rican alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón. The session's inspiration comes from the music of jibaros--Puerto Rican peasants--but there's nothing simplistic about the material Zenón has penned for his quartet, which includes pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Antonio Sánchez. The forms of Zenón's compositions tend to be complex, and it's not apparent at first listen how they link directly to the original music. The style of Jibaro, ...