Artists:Jake Schepps
From WWR
|
Jake Schepps is known for his intelligent touch on the banjo and his imaginative variation on stringband music. He has studied traditional and progressive bluegrass with banjoists Mark Vann of Leftover Salmon and Tony Trischka, as well as composition, counterpoint, and jazz from trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianists Bill Douglas and Art Lande.
According to LuAnna Jake Schepps is also a pretty nice guy. He has played the last two New Years Eve events at friends house concert venue in Colorado. He has he amazing ability to rememeber people and their names. It made me (LuAnna) feel like a million dollars when he walked up to more than three months since I had seen him at Winfield and say my name! Besides that, he takes this banjo thing to new and different dimensions. His music can be fun and lively or very mellow and subdued as well as everyhing in between. I would highly recommend any evening with Jake Shepps but most especially an all night New Years' Eve party
In addition to his musical path, Jake has spent the past 10 years leading trips for The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), and teaching emergency wilderness medicine for the Wilderness Medicine Institute (WMI) in locations around the world. In outdoor education, there is a constant necessity for improvisation, for boundless energy, and continuous dynamic engagement with the environment and with people. Jake believes the relationship between this style of teaching and being a musician are close-knit, and he draws heavily on this experience while playing music, in performing, composing, and collaborating.
Jake’s current musical projects include Jake Schepps and Expedition, an adventurous stringband featuring banjoist and composer Jake Schepps, Greg Schochet on guitar and mandolin, Ryan Drickey on violin and the indomitable bassist Eric Thorin. With engaging, dynamic material that reflects the Colorado aesthetic of roots music, they play music in the swing, honky-tonk, and bluegrass/old time tradition, but with intricate composition, counterpoint, and improvisation more characteristic of jazz and classical styles. Jake also plays with the 'chamber-grass' ensemble called the Strings of Tao. Over the years, Jake has performed on stage with Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain String Band , Matt Flinner Trio, Runaway Truck Ramp , Abigail Washburn, Jangeun Bae, Brian Prunka, Shanti Groove, Steel String Theory, and Boulder Acoustic Society.
External links
| Jake Schepps on MySpace |
| Jake Schepps on Wikipedia |
More information
 |
This artist lives in Colorado. |
 |
The gender of this artist/group is male. |
Search
WWR / Google / Google image / YouTube / MySpace / Google video / CDBaby / Wikipedia / 38 LastFM fans / Musi-Cal / RIAA Radar / eMusic / Blogs (RSS)
Fans
Rickhap / Kelli / Smileysmom2 / Atuuschaaw / LuAnna / Oldcajun / 12-stringer / Kazookid / Flying Trout / CooleyBufo / Jimkloss / Anagram / Sharpston / Gerganchepl / Peterdale / Balertwine / OldGowl / Messtaken / Reed
Listener Tags & Comments
 | Banjo 796 items |
Image on WWR
Click to view or edit Jake Schepps's picture
Artist image library
Albums on WWR
Video
Request a show of songs by Jake Schepps
| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Origami | Ten Thousand Leaves | 4:12 | 5 |  6 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Instrumental / Acoustic / Acoustic guitar / Banjo / Fiddle / Newgrass | Cute-Nik | Ten Thousand Leaves | 2:26 | 2 |  4 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Civilization | Expedition | 3:32 | 8 | 8 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Jazz / Newgrass / Banjo / Fiddle / Mandolin / Toe tapper / Solo vocalist / Acoustic |
| Total Time | 10:10 |
The current music queue contains 1 songs that will take 3 mins, 56 secs to play.
You must be a logged on user to request music. It's free and easy. Create an account here.
Artist name is|Jake Schepps Last played| more than 1 week ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Jake Schepps Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
Stats
- Spotlighted: Wednesday, December 13th 2006
- Songs on WWR: 23
- Total plays: 325
- Total requests: 235
- Total listens: 9531
- CDBaby referrals: 2
- CDBaby sales: Expedition (Sold 2 copies)
Other skins for artist pages
| Default / Simple / Classic / Jimbob / For Playing Around With / 12-stringer / Atuu / Mert / Kelli / Rubenerd / Kazookid |
