"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."
- Doug Collette, All About Jazz

Since he arrived in New York City in the late 1990s, three time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sanchez has been one of those powerhouses to watch and remember. Extracting an incredible array of colors from the drums, Sanchez defies nature with extraordinary dynamic shifts, subtle colorations, metric super-impositions, and streamlined clave patterns. But as heard initially with pianist Danilo Perez and most recently on his own Live In New York At Jazz Standard, Sanchez not only dazzles with herculean technique, but more importantly, he swings -- and in the old school sense of the word. Through recordings such as Chick Corea’s Dr. Joe, Michael Brecker’s Wide Angles, Gary Burton’s Quartet Live, Avishai Cohen’s Unity, Miguel Zenon’s Jibaro, Donny McCaslin’s In Pursuit, and Pat Metheny’s Speaking Of Now, The Way Up, and Day Trip, Sanchez’s brilliant evolution has become evident to all. Gary Burton’s new album features Antonio’s drumming as well as his composing skills on the title track, “Common Ground.”

Migration, Sanchez’s 2007 Cam Jazz debut as a leader, topped many critics’ year end polls, the album’s outstanding musicianship (featuring Chick Corea and Metheny) and memorable melodies making it both technically engrossing and easily enjoyable. A Magna Cum Laude Berklee School of Music graduate in Jazz Studies, a former student at the New England Conservatory of Music and an alumni of Mexico’s prestigious National Conservatory (where he majored in classical piano and composition), Sanchez thoroughly understands complex harmony and compositional structure, which when coupled to his love of music from all over the world produces jazz that satisfies on multiple levels.

“Antonio Sanchez, the drummer and composer,” notes The New York Times’ Nate Chinen, “compresses many of the strategies from the last 40 years of small-group jazz into each performance, while letting some of today's best soloists tear it up. [His drumming is] a tumbling overspill, deceptive in its suggestion of abandon.”

Sanchez’s latest, Live In New York At Jazz Standard (Cam Jazz), looses the reins on his drumming and composing skills. Accompanied by David Sanchez (tenor), Miguel Zenon (alto) and Scott Colley (upright bass), the bristling double CD set (recorded in October, 2008) documents a band on fire, engaging in the kind of heated interplay that only occurs in longstanding musical relationships.

Antonio Sanchez is one of the most in-demand drummers on the international jazz scene, regularly recording and touring alongside Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Kenny Werner, Charlie Haden, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, and Toots Thielmans. He has collaborated with the new generation of players that includes Joshua Redman, Chris Potter, John Patitucci, David Sanchez, Marcus Roberts, Avishai Cohen, Miguel Zenon, Scott Colley, Dave Samuels, Luciana Souza, Billy Childs, and Claudia Acuña, to name a few.