Kyle Shepherd

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Kyle Shepherd at Aarhus Jazz Festival 2010

Kyle Shepherd (born July 8, 1987 in Cape Town ) is a South African jazz musician ( piano , saxophone , xaru , vocals, composition ) and poet. Musically, Shepherd is based on the roots of township jazz and the goema beat .

Live and act

Shepherd, whose mother worked as a violinist at Abdullah Ibrahim's school M7, received classical violin lessons from the age of five. As a teenager he discovered improvisation and learned to play the piano as a self-taught . Since 2009 he has recorded several albums with his trio or quartet. On the album Into Darkness he acted as a solo pianist. He wrote the soundtrack for the feature film Noem my Skollie: Call Me Thief (2016).

Shepherd has worked with musicians such as Zim Ngqawana , Louis Moholo , Robbie Jansen , Errol Dyers , Hilton Schilder , Mark Fransman and Ayanda Sikade . His tours led to southern Africa as well as to Europe , Japan and China . Shepherd has appeared as a guest musician on the albums of Carlo Mombelli , Kesivan Naidoo , Andreas Tschopp and in the band Skyjack . As curator of the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2016 , he gave several concerts with his group and the soloists Lionel Loueke and Mthunzi Mvubu .

Prizes and awards

Shepherd's album fineArt was nominated for the South African Music Awards (SAMA) in the category “Best Traditional Jazz” in 2010 , his album A Portrait of Home the following year. In 2014 he won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for the jazz genre.

Discographic notes

  • fineArt (Sheer Sound 2009, with Buddy Wells , Dylan Tabisher, Claude Cozens)
  • A Portrait of Home (Sheer Sound 2010, with Shane Cooper , Jonno Sweetman)
  • South African History! X (Sheer Sound 2012)
  • Dream State (Sheer Sound 2014, with Shane Cooper, Jonno Sweetman and Buddy Wells)
  • Kyle Shepherd, Lionel Loueke, Sound Portraits from Contemporary Africa ( Jazzhaus 2017, with Mthunzi Mvubu, Shane Cooper, Jonno Sweetman)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b portrait (old fire station Mannheim)
  2. ↑ Noem my Skollie: Call Me Thief (IMDb)
  3. ^ Carlo Mombelli: I Press My Spine to the Ground (review)
  4. ↑ Skyjack
  5. ^ Bio - Kyle Shepherd . In: Kyle Shepherd . ( kyleshepherd.co.za [accessed March 26, 2018]).
  6. ↑ CD tip (SWR2)
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Kyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African jazz musician (piano, composition) and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town