Andy Sheppard

Andy Sheppard is a British jazz saxophonist, playing tenor and soprano, born in 1957 in Warminster, Wiltshire. He started in the late 1970s with the quartet Sphere, worked in Paris with Lumière and Urban Sax, and won Best Newcomer at the British Jazz Awards in 1987, after returning to the UK in the mid-1980s. He is known for his long partnership with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow and for his own albums on ECM since 2009. His first albums, Andy Sheppard (1987) and Introductions in the Dark (1989), came out on Antilles, followed by records for Blue Note in the 1990s.