Brad Shepik

Brad Shepik is definitely one of several great players (such as for example Jim Dark, Chris Rate, and Briggan Krauss) to go to N.Con.C. from Seattle in the first ’90s to create their mark within the downtown picture. His flexibility on your guitar offers led to carrying out and/or documenting with performers like Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, and Paul Motian, but his particular skill in interpreting the modal musics of Eastern European countries as well as the Balkans offers resulted in his position because the linchpin of many bands carrying out ethnic-hybrid jazz. Pachora, with Dark, Rate, and bassist Skuli Sverrisson, combines jazz with music from your Mediterranean Basin. Trumpeter Dave Douglas’ Tiny Bell Trio (also offering Jim Dark) applies a somewhat even more avant-garde method of the music of Eastern European countries, as well as the Paradox Trio (Matt Darriau, reeds; Rufus Cappadocia, five-string cello; and Seido Salifoski, dumbek) uses Eastern European countries as well as the Balkans as their blueprint. As head from the Commuters (with Peter Epstein, Sverrisson, Salifoski, and Mike Sarin), the concentrate shifts to merging Turkish and African music with Balkan-flavored jazz. Each one of these bands was produced in the middle-’90s and continues to be an on-again-off-again functioning project. Shepik is indeed skilled as of this kind of music that he provides even caused Yuri Yunakov, a previous person in Ivo Papasov’s music group, executing the frenetic wedding ceremony music of Bulgaria. Moving his cultural inclinations to the backdrop, Shepik also co-led BABKAS with alto participant Briggan Krauss and drummer Aaron Alexander. That is a jazz trio even more centered on group interplay and improvisation. Newer projects are the Brad Shepik Trio, with Chris Dahlgren on bass and Tom Rainey on drums; and Tridurga, an acoustic trio offering Tony Scherr on bass balalaika and Yuri Lemeshev on accordion. Shepik in addition has caused Owen Howard, Andy Laster, Franz Koglmann, as well as the Ken Schaphorst Big Music group, not only is it an associate of Joey Baron’s Killer Joey. Being a head, Shepik provides recorded many discs under his very own name because the past due ’90s, including two on Knitting Stock, Brief Trip and Drip, in addition to three for Songlines, Mortgage, Well, and Areas You Go.