Musique de films - Grammy and Golden Globe winner Antonio Sanchez Scoring Epix’s ‘Get Shorty’ TV Series

Par Novias, 18 avril 2017

Multi-award winning musician, composer Antonio Sanchez is scoring Premium cable network EPIX®s original series “Get Shorty” produced by MGM Television. The show is created by Davey Holmes (Shameless) and he is also executive producing the MGM Television production with Adam Arkin (“The Americans,” “Billions”) and Allen Coulter (The Sopranos, Remember Me) who also directed the first episode. The 10-episode, one hour dark comedy was inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times best-selling novel of the same name and stars BAFTA Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (“Girls,” St. Vincent, Bridesmaids) and multi-Emmy® winner Ray Romano (“Vinyl,” “Parenthood,” “Everybody Loves Raymond”). “Get Shorty” is the Grammy and Golden Globe winning film composer’s first TV project.

The series follows a hitman from Nevada who tries to become a movie producer in Hollywood as a means to leave his criminal past behind. For the score, Sanchez is incorporating his signature percussive sound, but also the classically trained composer will incorporate an orchestral sound when applicable. Next week, Sanchez heads to Havana Cuba along to perform for the 6th Annual International Jazz Day April 30th. Other Jazz icons participating include Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, Chucho Valdes, Richard Bona and Gonzalo Bona.

Named, Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll “Jazz Drummer of the Year,” Sanchez is best known in the film world for his Golden Globe nominated, and Grammy-winning score for Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman. As a leading Jazz drummer, he tours with Pat Methany and performs “Birdman Live” in concert halls worldwide.
“Get Shorty” will premiere this year on Epix.

(Source: press release 18th April 2017)