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Steve Shapiro

Born: 1963

A busy producer, composer, and session musician in New York City, Steve’s credits span many areas of the music & recording business — including major jazz and pop artists, television, feature films, commercials, multimedia, and education. He has led multiple releases as a contemporary jazz vibraphonist.

Steve has recorded with artists such as Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Ornette Coleman, Pat Martino, Regina Belle, They Might Be Giants, Roberta Flack, and SpyroGyra. He appeared on Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, which received 4 Grammy Awards including Album-of-the-Year. He also composes music for many television series, films, TV commercials and trailers, and is a long-time producer/arranger for the Walt Disney Company, with credits on an array of projects related to over forty feature film releases.

Jazz Honors The Beatles

by AAJ Staff
April 13, 2023

All About Jazz is honoring The Fab Four in the year of the 60th anniversary of the release of their first album (Please Please Me). This collective tribute was originally published in September 2009--as a living document, we'll add more quotes & stories over time (see how-to in comments section). We also compiled a companion playlist ...

Steve Shapiro: Plan To Be Spontaneous

by Dan Bilawsky
January 21, 2023

With mallets at the fore, a solid set of originals on the program and a strong cast in the mix, vibraphonist Steve Shapiro's musical voice and vision is clear-- and really something to hear--across this seven-song set. Working under the banner of a perfectly paradoxical title, he makes his mark from a number of angles--those of ...

Plan To Be Spontaneous

By Steve Shapiro

Label: Solidtone Recordings
Released: 2022

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Snarky Puppy & Steve Shapiro

by Joe Dimino
September 18, 2022

Episode 769 starts off with vibraphonist Steve Shapiro with new material off his latest album Plan to be Spontaneous. We follow that with a great story acting as a lead into Lee's Summit, MO-native Pat Metheny. The modern tunes continue with Lia Booth, Dana Fitzsimons and Plinio Fernandes. There is brand new music from Roger Lewis ...

Solomental

By Steve Shapiro

Label: Solidtone
Released: 2015

Try the Veal

By TRi/O

Label: Solidtone
Released: 2020
Track listing: Thanks But No Thanks; Hypotenuse; Vienna ; Ennui; When The World Is Running Down; The Cat; Dad The Bad; Le Poulet.

Hypotenuse

December 7, 2020

Album: Try the Veal
By TRi/O
Label: Solidtone
Released: 2020
Duration: 04:25

Vibraphonist Steve Shapiro, Bassist Dave Anderson, And Drummer Tyger MacNeal Team Up For Progressive Electric Trio Album 'Tri/O: Try The Veal.' Available October 16, 2020

September 28, 2020

Solidtone Recordings is pleased to announce the October 16th release of Try the Veal by TRi/O, a collaborative groove-based contemporary jazz & funk outing from three New York musicians: Steve Shapiro on vibraphone and mallet keyboards, virtuoso 5-string bassist Dave Anderson and drummer Tyger MacNeal. A unique concept and original repertoire sets the group apart in ...

TRi/O

TRi/O is a collaborative groove-based contemporary jazz & funk outing from three like-minded New York musicians: Steve Shapiro on vibraphone and mallet keyboards, virtuoso 5-string bassist Dave Anderson, and drummer Tyger MacNeal. A unique concept and original repertoire sets the group apart in the genres of jazz, percussion, and electronic music - especially through experimentation with customized live-loops and the electronic mallet controller, allowing the band to explore progressive new territory. Dynamic interaction and improvisation is the heart of everything on Try The Veal, which was recorded in late 2019 and early 2020