John Shifflett
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John Shifflett playing Double Bass at the Cafe Stritch in San Jose, California
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| Background information | |
| Born |
March 22, 1953 Dubuque, Iowa |
| Died | April 28, 2017 (aged 64) San Jose, California |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, arranger, educator |
| Instruments | Double bass, Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1970's-2017 |
| Labels | OA2 Records |
John M Shifflett (March 22, 1953 – April 28, 2017) was an American jazz musician, player of the double bass and also an arranger, and educator, with his last teaching job at San Jose State University.
John Shifflett was born in Dubuque, Iowa, attended High-School at Dubuque where he already played the bass (see at Sing Out Dubuque, John Shifflett playing his own composition on bass, January 8th 1971), and graduated in 1982 from Iowa University. While at Iowa State, John was it's big band and it's jazz combo bass player, appearing at festivals such as the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festivals in April 1979 and in March 1980.
John moved from Iowa to San Jose in 1987, as his wife Bethany was offered a professorship at San Jose State University.
John played in several notable acts, includingFrankie Avalon, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Dinah Shore, Mel Torme, Jerry Lewis, Dionne Warwick and the Smothers Brothers. According to his bio by OA2 Records and his San Jose State University profile, John Shifflett performed and recorded with key jazz artists such as Dave Liebman, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Red Holloway, Ernie Watts, John Zorn, Kim Richmond, Madeleine Peyroux, Kurt Elling, Norma Winstone, Boz Scaggs, Tom Harrell, Bobby Hutcherson, John Stowell, Harold Land and Kendra Shank. In the San Francisco Bay Area, John played with Christian Tamburr, Aaron Lington, Paul Tynan, Shay Salhov, Myra Melford, Eric Crystal, Mike Zilber, Scott Amendola, the Taylor Eigsti Trio, the Paul Nagel Trio, the Dave MacNab Trio, Ann Dyer & No Good Time Fairies, the Will Bernard Quartet, Anton Schwartz, Ray Brown's Great Big Band, Ben Goldberg, Tim Volpicella, Jason Lewis, Scott Barnhill, Aaron Wolf and Tim Lin.
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