Kevin Shea
Kevin Shea is an American jazz drummer in improvisation and experimental music. He attended Berklee College of Music.
Kevin Shea
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- Name
- Kevin Shea
- Born
- 1973
- Birthplace
- Minnesota, U.S.
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Berklee College of Music
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Kevin Shea is an American jazz drummer in improvisation and experimental music. He attended Berklee College of Music.
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Kevin Shea (born 1973) is an American composer and musician. The composer was born in Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
Kevin Shea studied at Berklee College of Music. The composer is a member of Talibam!.
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• Name — Kevin Shea • Born — 1973 • Birthplace — Minnesota, U.S. • Genre — Jazz, experimental music • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Drums • Current Member Of — Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Career
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. 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.
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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) • Peter Evans, Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed, 2010) • Asmus Tietchens, FT+ (Crouton, 2003) • Great Lakes, Wild Vision (Loose Trucks, 2016) • Great Lakes, Ways of Escape • Great Lakes, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge • Parts & Labor & Tyondai Braxton, Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack, 2003) • Swirlies, Cats of the Wild: Vol. Two (Bubble Core, 2003)
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Discography
• Storm & Stress with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 1997) • Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 2000) • Coptic Light with Coptic Light, (No Quarter 2005) • 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) • This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup, 2008) • Forty Fort (Hot Cup, 2009) • The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed, 2011) • Live at the Newport Jazz Festival (2011) • Slippery Rock! (Hot Cup, 2012) • Red Hot (Hot Cup, 2012) • Blue (Hot Cup, 2014) • Hannover (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014) • Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup, 2015) • Live (For Tune, 2016) • Paint (Hot Cup, 2017) • Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup, 2017) With Talibam! • Talibam! (Evolving Ear, 2005) • Ecstatic Jazz Duos (Thor's Rubber Hammer 2008) • Boogie in the Breeze Blocks (ESP Disk, 2009) • 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) • Hard Vibe (ESP Disk, 2017) • Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts • Translition 2 Siriusness • It Is Dangerous to Lean Out
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- 1.AllMusic artist p215670 Storm & Stress
- 2.AllMusic album mw0001439108 Coptic Light
- 3.Best Drummer New York 2012 - Kevin Shea. The Village Voice.
- 4.Storm & Stress - Storm & Stress. AllMusic.
- 5.Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights. AllMusic.
- 6.Coptic Light. AllMusic.
- 7.Shamokin!!!. AllMusic.
- 8.Hareuveni, Eyal. Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic album review @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz. 4 December 2008.
- 9.Corroto, Mark. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert album review @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz. 1 March 2011.
- 10.Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Newport Jazz 2011. NPR.org. 7 August 2011.
- 11.Layman, Will. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock. PopMatters. 27 March 2013.
- 12.Elliott, Moopa. Kind of, Kind of Blue: A Conversation with Mostly Other People Do the Killing. PopMatters. 15 September 2014.
- 13.Ackermann, Karl. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk album review @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz. 14 October 2015.
- 14.Ackermann, karl. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Paint album review @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz. 7 October 2017.
- 15.Shanley, Mike. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup). JazzTimes. 25 April 2019.
- 16.Rose, Raul D'Gama. Talibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks album review @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz. 18 July 2009.
- 17.Simpson, Paul. Double Automatism - Yasunao Tone, Talibam!, Sam Kulik Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic. AllMusic.
- 18.Masters, Marc. Talibam!: Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts. Pitchfork. 16 October 2007.
- 19.Cohan, Brad. Watch "No School" Rap Duo TaliBam! Float Through Williamsburg in the Trippy New Video for "BKLYN". Vice. 25 January 2015.
- 20.Complete Communion: Stewart Smith On Jazz For July. The Quietus. 11 July 2016.
- 21.Peter Evans Quartet. All About Jazz. 13 November 2007.
- 22.Jazz, All About. Peter Evans Quartet: Live in Lisbon. All About Jazz. 2 July 2010.
- 23.Monger, James Christopher. Ways of Escape - Great Lakes. AllMusic.
- 24.Album Premiere: Dreaming Too Close To The Edge by Great Lakes. The Big Takeover. 30 March 2018.
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