Composing and performing the percussion-driven score for “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” 2015’s Best Picture Oscar winner, was transformational for internationally celebrated ...

Banjo, harp and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never ...

Thanksgiving is just a few days away, but before we dig into the seasonal fowl, let’s digest this year’s other most buzz-worthy winged creature. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu‘s one-of-a-kind film ...

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 ...

If you’ve seen director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Birdman,” chances are you’ve been impressed by the film’s memorable and inventive drum-heavy soundtrack. The score by Mexican-born ...

Before 43-year-old “Birdman” composer Antonio Sanchez met Alejandro González Iñárritu, director, he was a diehard fan of Alejandro Iñárritu, radio DJ. As a teenager growing up in Mexico City, 96.9 WFM ...

“Rhythm is everything in cinema,” says director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Making the unique choice for the BIRDMAN soundtrack, Iñárritu went with an almost total drum score by four-time Grammy Award ...

Antonio Sánchez is perhaps best known for his frenetic drum score for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 2014 film "Birdman," but his follow-up album strikes a more political chord. The jazz drummer and composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

"What was done with the beginning credits and the end credits, where the drums hit every single little letter — that’s really hard to do," he says. By Chris Willman Birdman Still 1 - H 2014 Jazz ...

The crowd for the Thursday private screening at the Ace Hotel was reflected in the rock-concert-style whooping and hollering that greeted the jazz drummer’s frenzied fills and trills during the ...