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British jazz saxophonist and composer
- Andy Sheppard (born 20 January 1957) is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow.
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Andy Sheppard (born 20 January 1957) is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow.
An ECM recording artist, bandleader and composer, Andy Sheppard is one of Europe’s leading saxophonists and one of a very few British musicians to have made a significant impact on the international jazz scene, playing and writing for settings from solo to big band and chamber orchestra.
Andy Sheppard and Michel Benita have been crossing paths since the 1980s. In 2008 Sheppard, Benita and Sebastian Rochford came together in a project at the Coutances Jazz Festival in northern France. It was here that Sheppard first glimpsed the potential of this particular musical combination.
Mar 9, 2024 · Brilliant BBC documentary on UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard and how he began his incredible career - from humble beginnings busking on the streets of Paris to becoming one of the worlds finest...
- 30 min
- 1953
- uk Saxplayer
Oct 21, 2023 · Andy Sheppard. Biography. Articles. Has Influenced. The man who has emerged as one of Britain's foremost tenor and soprano saxophonists was introduced to the music of John Coltrane at the age of 19 and immediately went out and bought his own saxophone.
Following a series of highly acclaimed duo gigs in 2002, saxophonist ANDY SHEPPARD (‘a formidable and fearless jazz improviser’) and JOHN PARRICELLI (‘an imaginative and resourceful writer as well as a fine guitarist’) further their long-standing musical association with P.S., a new studio album for Provocateur Records.
May 5, 2015 · When you're improvising you don't think; you shouldn't be thinking at all when you're playing —Andy Sheppard "Jazz has always been an underground thing. It doesn't have the power and might of opera, but it should," says Andy Sheppard, shortly after the UK premier of Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015) at the Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival.
