Kevin Shea is an American

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drummer in

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and

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

. He attended

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

Career

Shea has played in the avant-garde band

Storm & Stress Storm & Stress (alternately styled as Storm&Stress or Stormandstress) were an American experimental rock band formed in Pittsburgh and later based in Chicago. The band's name is derived from the German literary movement Sturm und Drang. Storm & S ...

with whom he recorded ''Storm and Stress'' (produced by

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) in 1997 and ''Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights'' (produced by Jim O'Rourke) in 2000. He has also played in the band Coptic Light. ''

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'' named him best drummer of 2012. He has played with Micah Gaugh, Ian Williams, Daniel Carter,

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, Peter Evans, Mike Pride, and Matt Mottel. He is a member of the bands Talibam!, People, Moppa Elliott's

Mostly Other People Do the Killing Mostly Other People Do the Killing is a jazz quartet based in New York City including trumpeter Peter Evans, saxophonist Jon Irabagon, bassist Matthew "Moppa" Elliott, and drummer Kevin Shea. The group formed in 2003 and has released several al ...

, Puttin' on the Ritz, and Sexy Thoughts.

Discography

* ''Storm & Stress'' with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 1997) * ''Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights'' with Storm & Stress (Touch and Go, 2000) * ''Coptic Light'' with Coptic Light, (No Quarter 2005) * ''People'' with People (I and Ear, 2005) * ''Misbegotten Man'' with People (I and Ear, 2007) * ''Bangin' Your Way into the Future'' with Puttin On the Ritz (Hot Cup, 2008) * ''White Light/White Heat'' with Puttin On the Ritz (Hot Cup, 2010) * ''The Big Bang'' with

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* ''Mostly Other People Do the Killing'' (Hot Cup, 2004) * ''Shamokin!!!'' (Hot Cup, 2007) * ''This Is Our Moosic'' (Hot Cup, 2008) * ''Forty Fort'' (Hot Cup, 2009) * ''The Coimbra Concert'' (Clean Feed, 2011) * ''Live at the Newport Jazz Festival'' (2011) * ''Slippery Rock!'' (Hot Cup, 2012) * ''Red Hot'' (Hot Cup, 2012) * ''Blue'' (Hot Cup, 2014) * ''Hannover'' (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014) * ''Mauch Chunk'' (Hot Cup, 2015) * ''Live'' (For Tune, 2016) * ''Paint'' (Hot Cup, 2017) * ''Loafer's Hollow'' (Hot Cup, 2017) With Talibam! * ''Talibam!'' (Evolving Ear, 2005) * ''Ecstatic Jazz Duos'' (Thor's Rubber Hammer 2008) * ''Boogie in the Breeze Blocks'' (ESP Disk, 2009) * ''The New Nixon Tapes'' (Roaratorio, 2009) * ''Discover AtlantASS'' (Belly Kids, 2011) * ''Puff Up the Volume'' (Critical Heights, 2012) * ''Polyp'' (MN, 2014) * ''Double Automatism'' (Karl, 2015) * ''Hard Vibe'' (ESP Disk, 2017) * ''Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts'' * ''Translition 2 Siriusness'' * ''It Is Dangerous to Lean Out''

As sideman

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, ''Outdoor Spell'' (Northern Spy, 2011) *

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, ''The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda'' (Bastet, 2006) * Peter Evans, ''The Peter Evans Quartet'' (Firehouse 12, 2007) * Peter Evans, ''Live in Lisbon'' (Clean Feed, 2010) *

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, ''FT+'' (Crouton, 2003) *

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, ''Wild Vision'' (Loose Trucks, 2016) * Great Lakes, ''Ways of Escape'' * Great Lakes, ''Dreaming Too Close to the Edge'' *

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, ''Rise, Rise, Rise'' (Narnack, 2003) *

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, ''Cats of the Wild: Vol. Two'' (Bubble Core, 2003)

References

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