Paul Shapiro (musician)

Paul Shapiro is a jazz, world, and klezmer saxophonist from New York City.

Avant-garde jazz composer Peter Apfelbaum with Paul Shapiro (right), April 2008 (photo: Sheldon Levy)

From 1983 to 2007 Shapiro recorded eight albums, toured, and frequently played tenor saxophone in New York City with the Microscopic Septet.[1]

In 1994 Shapiro co-founded a musical collective with American record producer Arthur Baker called Brooklyn Funk Essentials.[2]

Discography

1. Midnight Minyan (2003)
2. It's In The Twilight (2006)
3. Essen (2008)[3]
4. Shofarot Verses (2014)

Appearances

• John Zorn - John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory (1992)
• Janet Jackson - Janet Remixed (1995)
• Ben Folds Five - the Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (1999)
• Lou Reed - Ecstasy (2000)
• Lou Reed - The Raven (2003)
• Yoko Kanno's band Seatbelts - soundtrack of the Cowboy Bebop video game (2004)
• Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars (2007)
• David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)[4]
• Lou Reed concert film - Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (2008)

References

1. The Microscopic Septet — Thirty Years of Seven Men in Neckties
2. Nastos, Michael G. "Biography: Peter Shapiro". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
3. http://www.paulshapiromusic.com/paulshapiromusic.com/Discography.html
4. "Credits: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 November 2010.