Elizabeth Shepherd

Canadian pianist and singer/songwriter Elizabeth Shepherd continues to be carving a person sound and tone of voice by combining and matching noises of modern jazz, funk, spirit, samba, and blues for an ever developing audience. Elevated by ministers from the Salvation Military, she was aware of the sounds of the Military brass band just as much as modern dance and traditional musics. Among her biggest jazz affects are Expenses Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Alice Coltrane, Abdullah Ibrahim, Abbey Lincoln, Sarah Vaughan, and Tag Murphy, amongst others. Shepherd’s formal research spanned continents from conservatories in Alberta, English Columbia in Canada to France, but she finished a piano level in music from McGill College or university in Montreal. Though her preliminary purpose was to go after a profession in music therapy, Shepherd came back to Toronto upon graduation in 2004, functioning being a waitress within a piano club prior to the owner provided her an opportunity to put aside a glass or two holder for stage functionality. Since then she’s played a lot of Toronto’s well-known haunts, like the Rex Resort, the Montreal Bistro, the Supermarket, as well as the Distillery Region. Overseas, Shepherd provides made an appearance at Tokyo’s Natural cotton Membership, London’s Jazz Cafe, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide present on BBC Radio and Matt Galloway’s Right here & Now plan on CBC Radio. Shepherd received a nomination for the 2006 Juno Prize for her initial album Begin to Move on Perform Right records, made by John Kong, and it had been voted the 3rd greatest vocal jazz record of the entire year by Peterson. Her follow-up 2007 Compact disc, Besides, was a assortment of remixes, a edition from the jazz regular “Midnight Sunlight,” and a late-night designed jam on Pierre Leduc’s “Soya.” Shepherd’s third Compact disc, Parkdale, released in 2008, provides her delving into tracks like Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Surface,” and specifications “Con Alma” or “Longer As You’re Living.” and was made by Nostalgia ’77’s Benedic Lamdin. Shepherd playing acoustic and Fender Rhodes pianos, was followed by bassist Scott Kemp, drummer Colin Kingsmore, tenor saxophonist Tag Hanslip, trumpeter William Sperandei, percussionist Roman Tome, and guitarist Reg Schwager. She turned things through to 2010’s Large Falls THE NIGHT TIME contained only 1 cover. The one, “Seven Dollars,” co-produced by DJ Mitsu the Beats, was the just monitor she didn’t helm by herself. The established was longlisted for Canada’s renowned Polaris Music Award. Her fourth record, Rewind, was a assortment of totally revisioned jazz and pop specifications, tunes that got inspired her intially, but had been performed in her specific, funky pop-jazz way. Though there have been a complete of nine sidemen, just several appeared at the same time. It was documented when she was eight a few months pregnant and made an appearance in 2012, and nominated to get a Juno Prize. After taking period off to nuruture her newborn girl, Shepherd returned towards the documenting studio room in 2014. The Sign was, at least on initial pay attention an abrupt modification of direction. Even more melodically and harmonically advanced, the established was stuctured much less a assortment of tunes, but as an recording in the 1970s feeling of the term. Among her solid of all celebrity players, African jazz guitarist Lionel Lueke (Herbie Hancock, Gretchen Parlato) guested on two songs. The Transmission was released on Sept 30.