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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Gord Sheard
- City: Toronto
- Country: Canada
Current News
- What's Up? I'm a musician (pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, producer) and music educator (full-time professor at Humber College in Toronto) with a PhD in ethnomusicology. In addition to leading my own bands -- including Gordon Sheard & SInal Aberto, and the Gordon Sheard Trio -- I play with several bands and do various freelance gigs in the Toronto area.
My Life
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Bio:
Professor Sheard...a jazzman truly blessed and bewitched with Jelly Roll Morton's "Spanish Tinge".
Gordon got to be a Ph.D. by interviewing Brazilian musicians, by analyzing, synthesizing and writing. But he got to be a musican (keyboards both horizonally -- piano -- and vertically -- accordion) by swinging...deep into the hot gumbo that boiled up into the North American continent through New Orleans...and stepping through to the far side of the Gulf of Mexico and the Amazon the man's brought back a lot that never did make it as far north as the cradle of jazz.
Gordon has had the pleasure of performing with Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Steve Gadd, David Garibaldi, Steve Ferrone, Lew Soloff, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, and Slim Gaillard. He toured extensively with fluegelhornist/composer Chuck Mangione in the United States, Canada, South America, and the Caribbean.
His CD "All Saints' Bay" (named of course for the Baía de Todos os Santos) was recorded in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil with Bahian musicians (among other colleagues of his), utilizing and incorporating the rhythms of candomblé and samba, and others native to the region.
When Gordon is not treading the backroads of Bahia in search of the lost rhythm he is Head of Composition at Humber College.
My Media
- Website: http://www.gordonsheard.ca
Click to Listen on Spotify
- (album/podcast 1): http://open.spotify.com/album/0LNUlOysuepmCRGroy1krq
- (album/podcast 2): http://open.spotify.com/album/10ygUYIhJxiYCjMmPWhSoZ
My Recordings:
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Discography:
Gordon Sheard, "Crucible," 2006 [CD]
Gordon Sheard, "All Saints' Bay," 2013 [CD]
Gordon Sheard & Sinal Aberto, "A New Day," 2019 [CD]
Matrix Music Player
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Tail of the Tiger - Gordon Sheard12 tracks43,133 plays | 342 views
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes...
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word...
Limned in cadenced song...
The Recôncavo is a smile inside an irony wrapped in a conundrum.
► The matrix originated as an extension of a record shop opened to divulge the little known music of the people of the Recôncavo and sertão of Bahia, Brazil (per this interview with David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio and hence a sugarcane cutter as our logo), along with other great Brazilian music.
► But in order to provide pathways from around the world to these largely unknown artists, the matrix has to do likewise for all artists everywhere.
