Kevin Shea (musician) explained
Kevin Shea is an American jazz drummer in improvisation and experimental music. He attended Berklee College of Music.
Career
Shea has played in the avant-garde band Storm & Stress with whom he recorded Storm and Stress (produced by Steve Albini) in 1997 and Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights (produced by Jim O'Rourke) in 2000. He has also played in the band Coptic Light. The Village Voice named him best drummer of 2012.[1]
He has played with Micah Gaugh, Ian Williams, Daniel Carter, Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans, Mike Pride, and Matt Mottel. He is a member of the bands Talibam!, People, Moppa Elliott's Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Puttin' on the Ritz, and Sexy Thoughts.
Discography
- Storm & Stress with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 1997)[2]
- Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 2000)[3]
- Coptic Light with Coptic Light, (No Quarter 2005)[4]
- People with People (I and Ear, 2005)
- Misbegotten Man with People (I and Ear, 2007)
- Bangin' Your Way into the Future with Puttin On the Ritz (Hot Cup, 2008)
- White Light/White Heat with Puttin On the Ritz (Hot Cup, 2010)
- The Big Bang with Alfred Vogel (Boomslang, 2011)
- Untitled with Barr & Dahl (ugEXPLODE, 2012)
- 3 x A Woman with People (Telegraph Harp, 2014)
With Mostly Other People Do the Killing
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing (Hot Cup, 2004)
- Shamokin!!! (Hot Cup, 2007)[5]
- This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup, 2008)[6]
- Forty Fort (Hot Cup, 2009)
- The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed, 2011)[7]
- Live at the Newport Jazz Festival (2011)[8]
- Slippery Rock! (Hot Cup, 2012)[9]
- Red Hot (Hot Cup, 2012)
- Blue (Hot Cup, 2014)[10]
- Hannover (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014)
- Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup, 2015)[11]
- Live (For Tune, 2016)
- Paint (Hot Cup, 2017)[12]
- Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup, 2017)[13]
With Talibam!
- Talibam! (Evolving Ear, 2005)
- Ecstatic Jazz Duos (Thor's Rubber Hammer 2008)
- Boogie in the Breeze Blocks (ESP Disk, 2009)[14]
- The New Nixon Tapes (Roaratorio, 2009)
- Discover AtlantASS (Belly Kids, 2011)
- Puff Up the Volume (Critical Heights, 2012)
- Polyp (MN, 2014)
- Double Automatism (Karl, 2015)[15]
- Hard Vibe (ESP Disk, 2017)
- Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts[16]
- Translition 2 Siriusness[17]
- It Is Dangerous to Lean Out[18]
As sideman
- Rhys Chatham, Outdoor Spell (Northern Spy, 2011)
- Ira Cohen, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (Bastet, 2006)
- Peter Evans, The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12, 2007)[19]
- Peter Evans, Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed, 2010)[20]
- Asmus Tietchens, FT+ (Crouton, 2003)
- Great Lakes, Wild Vision (Loose Trucks, 2016)
- Great Lakes, Ways of Escape[21]
- Great Lakes, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge[22]
- Parts & Labor & Tyondai Braxton, Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack, 2003)
- Swirlies, Cats of the Wild: Vol. Two (Bubble Core, 2003)
Notes and References
- Web site: Best Drummer New York 2012 - Kevin Shea . The Village Voice . 2014-10-24.
- Web site: Storm & Stress - Storm & Stress . AllMusic . 2018-08-14.
- Web site: Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights . AllMusic. 2018-08-14.
- Web site: Coptic Light . AllMusic. 2018-08-14.
- Web site: Shamokin!!!. AllMusic. 2018-08-14.
- Web site: Hareuveni . Eyal . Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic album review @ All About Jazz . All About Jazz . 30 April 2020 . 4 December 2008.
- Web site: Corroto . Mark . Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert album review @ All About Jazz . All About Jazz . 29 April 2020 . 1 March 2011.
- Web site: Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Newport Jazz 2011 . NPR.org . 29 April 2020 . 7 August 2011.
- Web site: Layman . Will . Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock . PopMatters . 30 April 2020 . 27 March 2013.
- Web site: Elliott . Moopa . Elliott . Greg . Kind of, Kind of Blue: A Conversation with Mostly Other People Do the Killing . PopMatters . 30 April 2020 . en . 15 September 2014.
- Web site: Ackermann . Karl . Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk album review @ All About Jazz . All About Jazz . 30 April 2020 . 14 October 2015.
- Web site: Ackermann . karl . Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Paint album review @ All About Jazz . All About Jazz . 29 April 2020 . en . 7 October 2017.
- Web site: Shanley . Mike . Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup) . JazzTimes . 29 April 2020 . 25 April 2019.
- Web site: Rose . Raul D'Gama . Talibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks album review @ All About Jazz . All About Jazz . 30 April 2020 . 18 July 2009.
- Web site: Simpson . Paul . Double Automatism - Yasunao Tone, Talibam!, Sam Kulik Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic . AllMusic . 30 April 2020.
- Web site: Masters . Marc . Talibam!: Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts . Pitchfork . 30 April 2020 . 16 October 2007.
- Web site: Cohan . Brad . Watch "No School" Rap Duo TaliBam! Float Through Williamsburg in the Trippy New Video for "BKLYN" . Vice . 30 April 2020 . 25 January 2015.
- Web site: Complete Communion: Stewart Smith On Jazz For July . The Quietus . 11 July 2016 . 30 April 2020.
- Web site: Peter Evans Quartet. All About Jazz. 13 November 2007 . 2018-08-14.
- Web site: Peter Evans Quartet: Live in Lisbon. Jazz. All About. All About Jazz. 2 July 2010 . en. 2018-08-14.
- Web site: Monger . James Christopher . Ways of Escape - Great Lakes . AllMusic . 30 April 2020.
- Web site: Album Premiere: Dreaming Too Close To The Edge by Great Lakes . The Big Takeover . 29 April 2020 . 30 March 2018.