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Il jazz ecologico di Brad Shepik
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Franz A. Matzner All About Jazz: La scorsa estate ho avuto la fortuna di assistere al debutto della tua nuova suite intitolata Human Activity, da poco pubblicata dalla Songlines. Si tratta di un lavoro ispirato ai problemi causati dai cambiamenti climatici, commissionato dall'organizzazione Chamber Music America e che ha beneficiato del supporto della Fondazione ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Jerry D'Souza
In June 2008, Brad Shepik premiered his work Human Activity Suite: Sounding a Response to Climate Change in New York. It was born out of his concern for the environment and the impact of climate change. Shepik, who is drawn to the music of other countries, wrote one tune for each of the seven ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Stuart Broomer
Brad Shepik's Human Activity Suite is a ten-part mingling of world music materials from various cultures and ecological concerns. Sponsored by Chamber Music America's New Works program, the project sees guitarist Shepik enlarging his usual trio with Gary Versace on keyboards and Tom Rainey on drums to include trumpeter Ralph Alessi and bassist Drew Gress. The ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by J Hunter
Theoretically, it should be difficult to do protest music without lyrics; nevertheless, that hasn't stopped Terence Blanchard, Ben Allison, and--most recently--Jeff “Tain" Waits from launching heat-seeking discs aimed right at the heart of some of this decade's most sensitive political issues. Now it's guitarist Brad Shepik's turn at bat with Human Activity Suite, only he's done ...
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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 ...
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