Brad Shepik

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Brad Shepik (* 1966 in Walla Walla (Washington) as Brad Schoeppach ) is an American guitarist of modern creative jazz .

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Shepik, who grew up in Seattle , began playing his father's guitar at the age of ten. Guitar and saxophone in school bands, then to attend the Cornish College of the Arts, where he studied with Jerry Granelli , Julian Priester , Dave Peck and Ralph Towner . In Seattle he founded the Trio Babkas with Briggan Krauss and Aaron Alexander in the late 1980s , which was sponsored by Wayne Horvitz . In 1990 he moved to New York City , where he long years in soon Tiny Bell Trio by Dave Douglas and also Paul Motian Electric Bebop band played. In 1994 he became a member of Matt Darriau's Paradox Trio , which fused klezmer , Balkan music and jazz . With Chris Speed , Jim Black and Skúli Sverrisson he founded Pachora to play world jazz . In his own projects, for example with the Commuters , he often designed "his own cosmos of African, Persian, Arab and Balkan traditions" ( The Loan , 1997), but also returned to advanced jazz ( Short Trip , 2001). He is also a member of Joey Barons Killer Joey and also played with Carla Bley , Charlie Haden , Andy Laster , Franz Koglmann , Jamie Baum and the Ken Schaphorst Big Band. In 2011 his album Across the Way was released .

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SURNAME Shepik, Brad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoeppach, Brad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist of modern creative jazz
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Walla Walla (Washington)