Kevin Shea (musician)

Kevin Shea
Kevin Shea playing at Downtown Music Gallery in New York City in 2024
Background information
Born	1973 (age 51–52) Minnesota, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, experimental music
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Drums

Kevin Shea is an American jazz drummer in improvisation and experimental music. He attended Berklee College of Music.

Career

Shea has played in the avant-garde band Storm & Stress with whom he recorded Storm and Stress (produced by Steve Albini) in 1997 and Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights (produced by Jim O'Rourke) in 2000. ^[1] He has also played in the band Coptic Light. ^[2] The Village Voice named him best drummer of 2012. ^[3]

He has played with Micah Gaugh, Ian Williams, Daniel Carter, Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans, Mike Pride, and Matt Mottel. He is a member of the bands Talibam!, People, Moppa Elliott's Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Puttin' on the Ritz, and Sexy Thoughts.

Discography

• Storm & Stress with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 1997) ^[4]
• Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 2000) ^[5]
• Coptic Light with Coptic Light, (No Quarter 2005) ^[6]
• People with People (I and Ear, 2005)
• Misbegotten Man with People (I and Ear, 2007)
• Bangin' Your Way into the Future with Puttin On the Ritz (Hot Cup, 2008)
• White Light/White Heat with Puttin On the Ritz (Hot Cup, 2010)
• The Big Bang with Alfred Vogel (Boomslang, 2011)
• Untitled with Barr & Dahl (ugEXPLODE, 2012)
• 3 x A Woman with People (Telegraph Harp, 2014)

With Mostly Other People Do the Killing

• Mostly Other People Do the Killing (Hot Cup, 2004)
• Shamokin!!! (Hot Cup, 2007) ^[7]
• This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup, 2008) ^[8]
• Forty Fort (Hot Cup, 2009)
• The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed, 2011) ^[9]
• Live at the Newport Jazz Festival (2011) ^[10]
• Slippery Rock! (Hot Cup, 2012) ^[11]
• Red Hot (Hot Cup, 2012)
• Blue (Hot Cup, 2014) ^[12]
• Hannover (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014)
• Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup, 2015) ^[13]
• Live (For Tune, 2016)
• Paint (Hot Cup, 2017) ^[14]
• Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup, 2017) ^[15]

With Talibam!

• Talibam! (Evolving Ear, 2005)
• Ecstatic Jazz Duos (Thor's Rubber Hammer 2008)
• Boogie in the Breeze Blocks (ESP Disk, 2009) ^[16]
• The New Nixon Tapes (Roaratorio, 2009)
• Discover AtlantASS (Belly Kids, 2011)
• Puff Up the Volume (Critical Heights, 2012)
• Polyp (MN, 2014)
• Double Automatism (Karl, 2015) ^[17]
• Hard Vibe (ESP Disk, 2017)
• Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts ^[18]
• Translition 2 Siriusness ^[19]
• It Is Dangerous to Lean Out ^[20]

As sideman

• Rhys Chatham, Outdoor Spell (Northern Spy, 2011)
• Ira Cohen, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (Bastet, 2006)
• Peter Evans, The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12, 2007) ^[21]
• Peter Evans, Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed, 2010) ^[22]
• Asmus Tietchens, FT+ (Crouton, 2003)
• Great Lakes, Wild Vision (Loose Trucks, 2016)
• Great Lakes, Ways of Escape ^[23]
• Great Lakes, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge ^[24]
• Parts & Labor & Tyondai Braxton, Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack, 2003)
• Swirlies, Cats of the Wild: Vol. Two (Bubble Core, 2003)

References

1. Storm & Stress at AllMusic
2. Coptic Light at AllMusic
3. "Best Drummer New York 2012 - Kevin Shea". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
4. "Storm & Stress - Storm & Stress". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
5. "Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
6. "Coptic Light". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
7. "Shamokin!!!". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
8. Hareuveni, Eyal (4 December 2008). "Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
9. Corroto, Mark (1 March 2011). "Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
10. "Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Newport Jazz 2011". NPR.org. 7 August 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
11. Layman, Will (27 March 2013). "Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock". PopMatters. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
12. Elliott, Moopa; Elliott, Greg (15 September 2014). "Kind of, Kind of Blue: A Conversation with Mostly Other People Do the Killing". PopMatters. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
13. Ackermann, Karl (14 October 2015). "Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
14. Ackermann, karl (7 October 2017). "Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Paint album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
15. Shanley, Mike (25 April 2019). "Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup)". JazzTimes. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
16. Rose, Raul D'Gama (18 July 2009). "Talibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
17. Simpson, Paul. "Double Automatism - Yasunao Tone, Talibam!, Sam Kulik | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
18. Masters, Marc (16 October 2007). "Talibam!: Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts". Pitchfork. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
19. Cohan, Brad (25 January 2015). "Watch "No School" Rap Duo TaliBam! Float Through Williamsburg in the Trippy New Video for "BKLYN"". Vice. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
20. "Complete Communion: Stewart Smith On Jazz For July". The Quietus. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
21. "Peter Evans Quartet". All About Jazz. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
22. Jazz, All About (2 July 2010). "Peter Evans Quartet: Live in Lisbon". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
23. Monger, James Christopher. "Ways of Escape - Great Lakes". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
24. "Album Premiere: Dreaming Too Close To The Edge by Great Lakes". The Big Takeover. 30 March 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2020.