Paul Shapiro (musician)
{{Short description|American saxophonist}}
File:Peter Apfelbaum & Paul Shapiro.jpg composer Peter Apfelbaum with Paul Shapiro (right), April 2008]]
Paul Shapiro is an American jazz, world and klezmer saxophonist from New York City.
Career
From 1983 to 2007, Shapiro recorded eight albums, toured, and frequently played tenor saxophone in New York City with the Microscopic Septet.[http://www.microscopicseptet.com/ The Microscopic Septet — Thirty Years of Seven Men in Neckties]
In 1994, Shapiro co-founded a musical collective with American record producer Arthur Baker called Brooklyn Funk Essentials.{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=paul-shapiro-p454535/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Peter Shapiro|last=Nastos|first=Michael G.|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=15 November 2010}} In 2014, the Wall Street Journal's music critic Will Friedwald wrote that "Shapiro's tenor saxophone sound itself is big, rich and full, and 'davens' in the direction of the great Italian tenors, like Vido Musso, Charlie Ventura and Sam Butera."{{cite news |last1=Friedwald |first1=Will |title=Tunes for Humming and Swing Dancing |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/tunes-for-humming-and-swing-dancing-1391744091 |accessdate=26 October 2020 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=7 February 2014}}
In 2020, Shapiro performed an homage to the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.{{cite news |last1=Goldblum |first1=Robert |title=Yiddish Festivals, Matisyahu, Brisket & 'Mrs Maisel' |url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/yiddish-festivals-matisyahu-brisket-mrs-maisel-all-the-jewish-events-in-nyc/ |accessdate=26 October 2020 |work=jewishweek.timesofisrael.com}}
Discography
- Midnight Minyan (2003)
- It's In The Twilight (2006)
- Essen (2008){{Cite web|url=http://www.paulshapiromusic.com/paulshapiromusic.com/Discography.html|title=Discography}}
- 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){{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=everything-that-happens-will-happen-today-r1426336/credits|pure_url=yes}}|title=Credits: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=15 November 2010}}
- Lou Reed concert film - Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (2008)
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.paulshapiromusic.com/}}
{{Brooklyn Funk Essentials}}
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Category:Tzadik Records artists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Musicians from New York City
Category:Brooklyn Funk Essentials members
Category:The Microscopic Septet members
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