Travis Shook

Infobox musical artist
Name = Travis Shook


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Larry Travis Shook
Born = birth date|1969|3|10
Origin = flagicon|USA Oroville, California, USA
Instrument = Piano
Genre = Hard bop
Modern Creative
Progressive jazz
Modal jazz
Mainstream jazz
Post bop
URL = [http://www.travisshook.com Official Website]

Travis Shook (born 1969 in Oroville, California) is a jazz pianist who made his eponymous Columbia Records debut in a quartet that included Tony Williams and Bunky Green. He received much critical acclaim for this first effort, but failed to hold onto the contract when Sony purged a large percentage of the Columbia jazz roster upon acquiring the label in 1993. After spending some time as a member of the Betty Carter Trio, he dropped out of the public eye for a number of years, at least in part due to a publicly acknowledged alcohol/substance abuse problem. In 1993, Travis Shook and his wife, jazz singer Veronica Nunn, started their own record label, Dead Horse Records, which has released four recordings to date. Shook grew up in Olympia, WA, moved to New York City in the mid-1990s and currently resides in Woodstock, NY.

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:lwfozf0heh6k~T1 All Music]
* [http://www.travisshook.com/ Official Website]

elected discography

As leader
* "Travis Shook"
* "Awake"
* "Travis Shook Plays Kurt Weill"

Sonny Simmons
* "American Jungle"

Veronica Nunn
* "American Lullaby"
* "Standard Delivery"