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)

Career

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] 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."[3]

In 2020, Shapiro performed an homage to the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.[4]

Discography
  1. Midnight Minyan (2003)
  2. It's In The Twilight (2006)
  3. Essen (2008)[5]
  4. Shofarot Verses (2014)

Appearances

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. Friedwald, Will (7 February 2014). "Tunes for Humming and Swing Dancing". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  4. Goldblum, Robert. "Yiddish Festivals, Matisyahu, Brisket & 'Mrs Maisel'". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  5. "Discography".
  6. "Credits: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 November 2010.


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