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All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Songlines Recordings “Brad Shepik - Human Activity Suite“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 29th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Brad Shepik at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Martin Gladu
Deep-blue oceans, airbrushed clouds, flaking dabs of greens receding into desolate plains... Remember the first time you saw a picture of the Earth? Remember that feeling?Did you know one can cover the Earth with one's thumb when standing from the Moon? Defenseless in the pitch-black, still silence of the Universe, our home--at least, that ...
February 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jeff “Tain" WattsJeff “Tain" WattsWinter JazzfestLe Poisson RougeNew York City January 10, 2009The big draw of Winter Jazzfest was drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts' midnight set at Le Poisson Rouge Jan. 10th in honor of Max Roach's birthday, with Terence Blanchard (trumpet), Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Mark Corroto
Social issues are not new to jazz composers. Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus wrote music in the heyday of the civil right movement and more recently Charlie Haden produced his antiwar Not In Our Name (Verve, 2005) for his Liberation Music Orchestra. Guitarist Brad Shepik, like many of us, is thinking globally. He speaks to the ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Matt Marshall
Guitarist Brad Shepik has admitted that a strictly musical approach to environmental issues may not be as persuasive as a song that can speak directly to specific problems with its lyrics. Nevertheless, his Human Activity Suite, a series of world music pieces intermixed with pieces highlighting the causes and effects of global climate change, is a ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Troy Collins
A powerful indictment of mankind's role in global warming, Human Activity Suite is guitarist Brad Shepik's most expansive and earnest project to date. Global warming is an issue close to Shepik's heart, as explained in a December 2008 interview with Frank A. Matzner.A well-versed world traveler, Shepik has explored many cultural traditions--both on his ...
Guitarist Brad Shepik Interviewed at AAJ
Guitarist Brad Shepik is an artist with a conscience that extends to major global issues. A recently completed 12-part commission, Human Activity, addresses, in musical terms, the issue of global climate change. As diverse and multifaceted as both Shepik and the problem at hand are, it's a sweeping musical statement from an artist whose name continues ...
Brad Shepik: Sounding A Global Warming Warning
by Franz A. Matzner
As can only happen in New York, I stumbled upon guitarist Brad Shepik's portentous suite Human Activity entirely serendipitously. Visiting New York for the day on extra-musical business, the evening began as a step around the corner to the 55 Bar to sample whatever music was on tap and quickly transformed into a night of singularly ...
Places You Go
By Brad Shepik
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Temoin; Air; Return; Crossing; Five and Dime; The South; As Was; Frozen; Batur; Tides.
Brad Shepik: Places You Go
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da tempo il chitarrista Brad Shepik sta costruendosi una carriera importante, nel solco del jazz moderno. Sembra non aver fretta di arrivare e i suoi progetti discografici hanno la giusta cadenza per rimanere fissati come chiodi piantati con cura sulla parete, ognuno ben saldo per diventare uno snodo di passaggio che facilita la scalata complessiva. Questo ...
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