Shane Endsley

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Shane Endsley (born December 31, 1969 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American jazz trumpeter , percussionist and composer .

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Shane Endsley studied trumpet, percussion and composition at the Eastman School of Music . After his graduation he worked in the early 2000s a. a. with singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco , Jason Mraz ( Waiting for My Rocket to Come , 2002) and with Ravi Coltrane . Together with the woodwind player Ben Wendel , the keyboardist Adam Benjamin, the bassist Kaveh Rastegar and the drummer Nate Wood he is a founding member of the post-rock / jazz formation Kneebody and has played on several of the ensemble's albums. They received a Grammy nomination in 2009 for the album Twelve Songs of Charles Ives , which the group released together with Theo Bleckmann . He regularly plays with musicians from downtown New York such as Ralph Alessi , Steve Coleman , John Hollenbeck and Tim Berne , as well as Edward Simon and Donny McCaslin . In 2002 he presented his debut album 2nd Guess . In 2007, Down Beat magazine recognized him as one of the top 25 trumpeters of his generation ; in the magazine's readers poll, his music band was voted the best formation of the year. Endsley moves stylistically in the range between modern creative , post-rock, folk and free improvisation.

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  1. ↑ Biographical information at music.aol.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / music.aol.com  
  2. ^ Information from NY Daily News
  3. ↑ Information about the album at All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Endsley, Shane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter, percussionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado