Gordon Sheard is a musician (pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, producer) and music educator (full-time professor at Humber College in Toronto) with a PhD in ethnomusicology. In addition to leading his own bands — including Gordon Sheard & SInal Aberto, and the Gordon Sheard Trio — he plays with several bands and does various freelance gigs in the Toronto area.
Gordon got to be a Ph.D. by interviewing Brazilian musicians, by analyzing, synthesizing and writing. But he got to be a musician (keyboards both horizonally — piano — and vertically — accordion) by swinging…deep into the hot gumbo that boiled up into the North American continent through New Orleans…and stepping through to the far side of the Gulf of Mexico and the Amazon the man’s brought back a lot that never did make it as far north as the cradle of jazz.
He has had the pleasure of performing with Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Steve Gadd, David Garibaldi, Steve Ferrone, Lew Soloff, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, and Slim Gaillard. He toured extensively with fluegelhornist/composer Chuck Mangione in the United States, Canada, South America, and the Caribbean.
Personnel:
Gordon Sheard-piano
George Koller-bass
Mark Kelso-drums
Check out: “Sow the Wind” “One for Dad”
