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Musician

Jim Shearer

Born: April 5, 1964

Jim Shearer holds a D. M. A. in Performance and Literature and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He teaches tuba, euphonium, music history, and music appreciation to graduate, undergraduate, and honors students at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, where he holds the joint titles of Regents Professor of Music and Distinguished Achievement Professor. In addition, he presents concerts, master classes, and lectures as a Yamaha Performing Artist. An active classical soloist, Dr. Shearer has appeared throughout the United States as a guest artist with various wind ensembles and orchestras and in solo and chamber recital performances in The Great American Tuba Show and The Great American Trio. In the early 1990s, he traveled to Switzerland as a participant in the 47th Concours International d'Exécution Musicale, the first time this prestigious competition included the tuba as a solo instrument. He has toured Japan as a member of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, playing concerts and recording a compact disc for the Sony Classical label. In 2006, Shearer toured Colombia with the NMSU Faculty Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble for the United States Department of State. While in Colombia, he performed for over 25,000 people at the national band festival and gave educational classes in Bogotá and Paipa. He is a former Principal Tubist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, the current Principal Tubist for both the Roswell and Las Cruces Symphony Orchestras, and a former member of El Paso Brass, with whom he released three commercial recordings. His playing can also be heard on blues artist Eric Bibb's CD Diamond Days on Telarc Records. During a regional broadcast on NPR, Saint Paul Sunday host Bill McGlaughlin referred to Shearer and his tuba playing as the "lowest of the low brass!" (We think he meant it as a compliment.)

Video

James Shearer Interview

Featuring the music of Jim Shearer
Duration: 5:03
January 26, 2024

James Shearer is a Regency Professor in the Music Department at New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, NM. He is also a professional musician, spanning a multi-decade career as a professional tuba player, french horn, and many other brass and orchestra instruments. Mr. Shearer also is a member of the El Paso Brass Quartet, a troupe of brass players apart of the El Paso Orchestra.

Album

Cloud Bowling With Claude Bolling

By Jim Shearer

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Baroque and Blue; Sentimentale; Javanaise; Fugace; Irlandaise; Versatile; Veloce. Disc 2: The Opener; Ellingtonian; Brubesque; Double Ones; Borrowed Time; Overshadowed; The Closer.

Album

Secret Frets

By Jim Shearer

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. Tchavolo Swing, 2. Darkness On The Delt 3. Lucky Southern 4. Little rock Getaway 5. Recompense 6. Double Concerto in D Minor, Mov't 1, BWV 1043 7. Douce Ambiance (Sweet Atmosphere) 8. Djangology 9. Petite Fleur (Little Flower) 10. Sweet Georgia Brown 11. The Grackle and the Hampster 12. My One And Only Love 13. Hungry Man

Song of the Day

Ellingtonian

December 23, 2023

Album: Cloud Bowling With Claude Bolling
By Jim Shearer
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:26

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Tubist Jim Shearer

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2023

Meet Jim Shearer Jim Shearer was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, in 1964. His family owned the local newspaper, The North Mississippi Herald, from 1943-2004, and his father was an active musician on the side, playing jazz saxophone and serving as Minister of Music at the family church (but never at the same time!). After spending ...

Album

The Memphis Hang

By Jim Shearer

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Well, You Needn't; 2. Seduced; 3. Mound Bayou; 4. That Note Costs A Dollar; 5. Can't Take You Nowhere; 6. Secret Love; 7. Not When I've Been Drinkin'; 8. Blue Turning Gray Over You; 9. The Memphis Hang; 10. Goodbye Porkpie Hat; 11. Cool