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This past march Brad played a radio session with Saxophonist Lenny Pickett and his Block Party Band for WBGO in Newark, NJ that was picked up for a National Public Radio broadcast this May.

You can hear the full broadcast here:

http://www.wbgo.org/ontheair/ondemand/ 

(click on Lenny Pickett and his NYU Block Party Band)

or listen to DJ Dee Dee Bridgewater and the NPR cut here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126799104

Check out Brad’s final project for a class called Jazz Arranging at New York University from December of 2009. The premise was an ensemble of four string players, several woodwinds and brass, and a rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums sight reads your arrangement in front of some microphones. Check it out here.

Brad has been fortunate to study and perform with master of jazz and trumpet Brian Lynch over the past spring. Brian’s NYU Afro-Caribbean band played in NYC gigs at the Bowery Poetry Club, The Blue Note, Tutuma Social Club and made several recording sessions. The band played some more this summer in the Eastern European Country of Latvia touring several cities performing concerts and masterclasses through a combinations of efforts from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The U.S. Embassy in Latvia, and New York University. Read our blog about it here: http://nyfablog.wordpress.com/

Brad plays with Jon Lijoi’s Night of The Living Funk! Check out some of their music here:

http://nightofthelivingfunk.bandcamp.com/

watch a video Brad Shot of the band here:

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This is the NYU Jazz Orchestra featuring  Lenny Pickett in the city of Abu Dabi of the United Arab Emirates in January of 2009.

This is a two part documentary about the tour to the U.A.E. with the NYUJO and Lenny Pickett

Check out the New York University Jazz Orchestra featuring Chris Potter live at Dizzy’s Lincoln Center Jazz Club in December of 2009 performing Chris’ tune “Megalopolis” arranged by B-Rad!

Enjoy this offering to the Jazz gods from Brad Shepik’s NYU World Ensemble live at Rose Live Music in Brooklyn, NYC this past April!

This is the NYU Jazz Orchestra featuring  Wayne Krantz in Florence Italy during June of 2009.

Brad played trombone in the band and also wrote music for the band to play. The second video here captures Brad’s arrangement of Wayne’s tunes Honey Loves Sugar and Signals.

Brad plays in the Traditional/Dixieland Jazz band The Recessionals. He made a video about them playing in Washington Square Park and recruited them to record a soundtrack to the maze scene in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining for a NYU class project.