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This R&B vocal group was formed in 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Sheppards created a marvellous transitional style of R&B during the early 60s, drawing much of its character from earlier doo-wop, yet incorporating instrumentation and vocal stylings that in later years would inform soul music. They were named after their producer Bill ‘Bunky’ Sheppard. The members were lead and bass Millard Edwards, lead and top tenor Murrie Eskridge, baritone Jimmy Allen, bass and fifth tenor James Dennis Isaac, second tenor O.C. Perkins and guitarist Kermit Chandler. The group’s most famous song was the doo-wop ballad ‘Island Of Love’...

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It’s the stuff of teenage dreams: one minute you’re writing songs in your parents’ front room, the next you’re knocking Pharrell Williams’ Happy off the number one slot. Sheppard's international hit single Geronimo was the Brisbane band's battle-cry, a super-sophisticated stadium pop anthem shot through with all the mixed emotions of being young. Now the multi-platinum indie six-piece, formed around siblings George, Amy and Emma Sheppard, are launching their debut album Bombs Away on the world - and what a fast, strange journey it’s been. The Sheppard story starts two and half thousand miles from Brisbane in the tropical Pacific...

Originario di Warmister, Andy Sheppard è non da oggi uno dei più interessanti solisti europei. Non è un caso che di lui si siano accorti quotatissimi bandleader come il compianto Gil Evans, George Russell e Carla Bley, che lo hanno coinvolto nelle rispettive orchestre. Ma la carriera del sassofonista si è snodata anche lungo altri percorsi: le collaborazioni, fra gli altri, con il chitarrista Pat Metheny, il percussionista brasiliano Nana Vasconcelos, il violinista indiano L. Shankar, gli olandesi Han Bennink e Ernst Reijseger, con il pianista connazionale Keith Tippett; la costituzione di propri gruppi, sia di piccole che di ampie...

Craig Sheppard (full name: Craig Douglass Sheppard, born 26 November 1947; Philadelphia, PA) is an American concert pianist and educator of Scots-Irish, English and German descent. The son of Jeanne Linton and George Edgar Sheppard, Sheppard was raised in Jenkintown, PA, and graduated Abington High School in 1965. He studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute from 1965–68 and Sasha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School from 1968–71, graduating from the latter with Bachelor of Music and Master of Science degrees.[1] In 1968, he won the Bronze Medal in the Busoni Competition. In 1972, he won the Silver Medal at...