world-improv guitar
"...Shepp's unique style can't be put into one box; you'd need 20!"
world-improv guitar
"...Shepp's unique style can't be put into one box; you'd need 20!"
About Shepp
Richard “Shepp” Sheppard, Guitar, comes from Southern New Jersey and now lives in Southern NH. He attended the Berklee College of Music, studied guitar and composition with jazz-great Pat Martino in Philadelphia, studied composition and aesthetics with Dr. Frank Haas in Vinland NJ and studied The Dennise Sandoli guitar method with certified Sandoli instructor Steve Girardi in Vineland, NJ as well as studied guitar with Attilla Zoller in Southern Vermont.
He has taught guitar and music theory as a faculty member of Bennington College (Bennington, Vermont), while there he wrote his curriculum and two instruction books, the Pittsfield Community Music School (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), taught privately at Williams College in Williamstown MA. and taught guitar and music theory at Appel Arts camp in Elmer NJ.
He has performed with and or done shows with many different artists. Among these are Pat Martino, Ritary Ensemble, Rick Danko, John Jorgenson, Hot Tuna, Vassar Clements, Bill Dixon, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Troy and Bill Frizel. Shepp has also performed with his group Ameranouche at major festivals in the USA featuring his original compositions. These festivals include the Newport Jazz festival, Exit Zero Jazz festival, Djangofest Northwest, Bethlehem musikfest and Midwest Gypsy Swingfest to name a few.
His passion for Gypsy/World music and love for the guitar in general are what drew him to form Ameranouche, a World Improv trio. He has written many compositions and continues to invest his time in the evolution of Ameranouche and The Philly Cool which is an organ trio playing original compositions and jazz standards in an iconoclastic style take off of traditional Philadelphia organ trio styling(s)
Shepp is an endorser of Dan Hunt guitars, Wegen picks and John Pearse strings.
