Daily Dose Of Jazz... | Notorious Jazz

Categories
- Atlanta Jazz Festival
- Broadway To 52nd Street
- Club Owner
- Conversations About Jazz
- Daily Dose Of Jazz
- Era
- Hollywood On 52nd Street
- Jazz In Film
- Jazz Poems
- Literary Works
- Requisites
- Review
- The Jazz Voyager
- Three Wishes
- Type of Jazz
  - Acid Jazz
  - Afro Cuban
  - Afro Jazz
  - Arranger
  - Asian
  - Author
  - Avant-Garde
  - Bebop
  - Big Band
  - Blues
  - Bop
  - Bossa Nova
  - Brass Band
  - Brazilian
  - Club Owner
  - Composer
  - Conductor
  - Contemporary
  - Cool
  - Critic
  - Dixieland
  - Experimental
  - Founder
  - Free
  - Fusion
  - Gypsy Jazz
  - Hard Bop
  - Hot Jazz
  - Jazz Funk
  - Jazz Rock
  - Latin Jazz
  - Lyrics
  - M-Base
  - Mainstream
  - Modal
  - Modern
  - Neo-Bop
  - New Age
  - Poetry
  - Post Bop
  - Progressive
  - Promoter
  - Ragtime
  - Soul Jazz
  - Straight Ahead
  - Stride
  - Swing
  - Symphonic
  - Third Stream
  - Traditional
  - Vocal
  - West Coast
  - World

Search for:

Archives
Archives

Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Mark Shim was born on November 21, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica but raised in Canada from the age of eight months to five years. Then his family moved to Richmond, Virginia. He started playing tenor saxophonist in the seventh grade through high school. Graduating in 1991 he attended Virginia Commonwealth University and William Patterson College.

1994 saw Shim moving to Brooklyn, New York where he played and recorded with Hamiet Bluiett in Harlem. He then played with Elvin Jones, Mose Allison, Betty Carter, Greg Osby and the Mingus Big Band.

He recorded his debut album Mind Over Matter for Blue Note Records in 1998, with his sophomore project New Directions with Stefon Harris, Jason Moran and Greg Osby and Turbulent Flow released in 2000. Tenor saxophonist Mark Shim continues to perform, record and tour.

Give A Gift Of Jazz – Share

More Posts: saxophone