Photo Credit: Fernando Aceves
Antonio Sánchez will continue his tour in support of SHIFT (Bad Hombre Vol. II) on November 11th at Portland’s Jack London Revue. The dates will find him and his band Bad Hombre along both American coasts, highlighted by stops at Brooklyn’s Sultan Room, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance in Los Angeles, CA, Yoshi’s in Oakland, CA, and two nights at Seattle, WA’s Jazz Alley. The complete itinerary is below.
Born in Mexico City, Antonio Sánchez began playing drums at age five and performed professionally in Mexico’s rock, jazz, and Latin scenes in his early teens while also being a gymnast on Mexico’s Junior National Team. He pursued a degree in classical piano at Mexico’s National Conservatory before traveling to Boston in 1993 to further his studies at Berklee College of Music. After he graduated magna cum laude, Sánchez obtained a scholarship for a master’s degree in jazz improvisation at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music.
While at the Conservatory, Sánchez’s teacher, the great Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez, recommended him to Paquito D’Rivera for the drum chair in Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra. Perez later invited Sánchez to join his acoustic trio, followed by extensive touring and recording. From there, Sánchez joined legendary guitarist Pat Metheny for decades of touring and recording.
“Antonio is an exceptional musician in addition to being an unbelievable drummer,” says 20x Grammy Award-winner Pat Metheny. “He has a wide view of music and how it functions which informs every note he plays. I honestly never thought that a musician like him would ever be born. He’s a dream…one of the greatest musicians I have ever seen.”
Sánchez made his debut as leader with 2007’s Migration. In 2014, his soundtrack for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Academy Award-winning Birdman proved a milestone achievement, earning Sánchez a Grammy Award for “Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media.”
ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ & BAD HOMBRE TOUR 2022
OCTOBER
18 – Washington, DC – City Winery
19 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
20 – Red Bank, NJ – The Vogel
1 – Old Saybrook, CT – The Kate
22 – Portsmouth, NH – Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club
23 – Boston, MA – City Winery
27 – Brooklyn, NY – The Sultan Room
NOVEMBER
1 – Phoenix, AZ – Musical Instrument Museum
3 – Los Angeles, CA – UCLA’S Center for the Art of Performance
5 – Sacramento, CA – The Sofia
6 – Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s
7 – Santa Cruz, CA – Kuumbwa
8 & 9 – Seattle, WA – Jazz Alley
11 – Portland, OR – The Jack London Revue
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