Andy Sheppard - Heavy Lullabies
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Saxophonist Andy Sheppard has been a constant presence on the British, and international, jazz circuit since he emerged as part of the late 1980s young UK jazz scene, yet for all his widespread popularity he’s remained hungry for exploring sonic pastures new.
It’s apt then that his current group, Trio Libero, has morphed into a quartet with the addition of Norwegian guitar soundsculptor extraordinaire Eivind Aarset, and has produced an immersive new album, Surrounded By Sea, on Sheppard’s new spiritual home ECM. Selwyn Harris spoke to the saxophonist about how his self-taught artistic journey has always been about drawing on life’s lessons and not those of musical academia
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