Brad Shepik, also known as Brad Schoeppach (born February 13, 1966, Walla Walla, Washington) is an American jazz guitarist.[1] He also plays the saz and tambura.

Born Brad Schoeppach, he changed his last name to Shepik in the late 1990s. He played saxophone as a youth but switched to guitar as a teenager. He attended Cornish College of the Arts and New York University.[1] In the 1990s he led his own ensembles with sidemen including Jim Black, Peter Epstein, Tony Scherr, Chris Speed, Skúli Sverrisson, and Kenny Wollesen.

He has worked as a sideman with Joey Baron, Carla Bley, Bob Brookmeyer, Matt Darriau, Dave Douglas, Charlie Haden, Franz Koglmann, Andy Laster, Paul Motian, Ken Schaphorst, George Schuller, Simon Shaheen, and Yuri Yunakov. [1]

Discography

  • The Loan (Songlines, 1997)
  • The Well (Songlines, 2000)
  • Short Trip (Knitting Factory, 2001)
  • Drip (Knitting Factory, 2003)
  • Places You Go (Songlines, 2006)
  • Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009)
  • Across the Way (Songlines, 2011)
  • Quartet 1991 (Songlines, 2016)
  • Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm, 2024)

References

  1. ^ a b c Yanow, Scott (2013). The Great Jazz Guitarists. San Francisco: Backbeat. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-61713-023-6.


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