Brad Shepik, also known as Brad Schoeppach (born February 13, 1966, Walla Walla, Washington) is an American

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guitarist. 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

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and New York University. In the 1990s he led his own ensembles with sidemen including

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, Peter Epstein,

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, and

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. He has worked as a sideman with

Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American drummer best-known for working in avant-garde jazz with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron, who is of Jewish heritage, was born on June 26, 1955, in Ric ...

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, Matt Darriau, Dave Douglas,

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, Ken Schaphorst, George Schuller, Simon Shaheen, and Yuri Yunakov.

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

*"Brad Shepik". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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. Guitarists from Washington (state) 1966 births Living people 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians American jazz guitarists American male guitarists American male jazz musicians {{US-jazz-guitarist-stub