Acclaimed jazz drummer/composer Antonio Sánchez continues to reinvent his own brilliance. An alumnus of the Pat Metheny Group, winner of four Grammy awards and an Academy Award nomination for his “Birdman” soundtrack, Sanchez has most recently been recording and touring as an alter ego entity called Bad Hombre.

The Bad Hombre persona was inspired out of Sanchez’s Trumpian political anxiety, with the name specifically taken from one of President Orange-Head’s silly quotes about “bad hombres” sneaking around the country.

Sanchez, a native of Mexico City who graduated from the Berklee School of Music and the New Englad Conservatory, has more than the musical and thematic chops to use those tensions as a springboard to artistic greatness. He fuses percussion, electronics and his grandfather’s spoken word poetry, and the “Bad Hombre” “Bad Hombre II” albums are exhilarating, disturbing and ultimately uplifting exercises.

What might be even better is to experience the Bad Hombre conceit live, and Sanchez performs in Old Saybrook’s Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center. Could be one of the shows of the year.

Antonio Sánchez and Bad Hombre, 8 p.m. Friday, The Kate, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook; $38; www.thekate.org. (860) 510-0453.