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Adam Shulman (2010)
Visit Website	Adam Shulman is that rara avis, not just a native Californian, but a native San Franciscan. He been turning heads and ears on our music scene since he finished at UC Santa Cruz in the early years of the millennium, having studied there with both the late Smith Dobson and also the trumpeter and arranger Ray Brown. Initially studying classical piano, Adam attributes his initial attraction to jazz to what he modestly terms "horrible" sight-reading skills. Since then, he's played with countless Bay Area musicians, such as Andrew Speight, Marcus Shelby, Kitty Margolis, Michael Zilber, Anton Schwartz, Bobby Hutcherson, and Paula West, and, less close to home, Miguel Zénon and Stefon Harris. Both of Adam's own recordings as a leader ("On Second Thoughts" from January ’07, and "Patterns of Change", from 18 months later) feature not only his friend from their high-school days Dayna Stephens (with whom he shares a birthday), but also his own compositions, exclusively. To do the latter is often euphemistically termed "courageous", but Adam's melodic lines are so engaging and strong that the total novelty and the lack of the familiar signposts become advantages rather than the opposite. The repertoire of Adam's recordings notwithstanding, Adam likes nothing better than a good standard: indeed, three of his desert island choices have the word "standard" in the title.

Adam Shulman (2010)

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Adam Shulman is that rara avis, not just a native Californian, but a native San Franciscan. He been turning heads and ears on our music scene since he finished at UC Santa Cruz in the early years of the millennium, having studied there with both the late Smith Dobson and also the trumpeter and arranger Ray Brown. Initially studying classical piano, Adam attributes his initial attraction to jazz to what he modestly terms "horrible" sight-reading skills.

Since then, he's played with countless Bay Area musicians, such as Andrew Speight, Marcus Shelby, Kitty Margolis, Michael Zilber, Anton Schwartz, Bobby Hutcherson, and Paula West, and, less close to home, Miguel Zénon and Stefon Harris.

Both of Adam's own recordings as a leader ("On Second Thoughts" from January ’07, and "Patterns of Change", from 18 months later) feature not only his friend from their high-school days Dayna Stephens (with whom he shares a birthday), but also his own compositions, exclusively. To do the latter is often euphemistically termed "courageous", but Adam's melodic lines are so engaging and strong that the total novelty and the lack of the familiar signposts become advantages rather than the opposite.

The repertoire of Adam's recordings notwithstanding, Adam likes nothing better than a good standard: indeed, three of his desert island choices have the word "standard" in the title.

Pick	Artist	Album	Song	Label
# 1	Bill Evans	Interplay	Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams	OJC
# 2	Art Tatum	Standards	Sweet Lorraine	Black Lion
# 3	Ella Fitzgerald	Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 2	I Concentrate on You	Verve
# 4	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	Remember	Blue Note
# 5	Miles Davis	Porgy and Bess	Bess, You Is My Woman Now	Columbia
# 6	Keith Jarrett	Standards in Norway	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	ECM
# 7	Sonny Clark	Standards	Can't We Be Friends?	Blue Note
# 8	Hank Jones	Trio	There's a Small Hotel	Fresh Sound

Book	Ernest Hemingway, something long

Luxury Item	A surfboard

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