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Bob Sheppard

Bob Sheppard is a saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, bandleader, session musician, and educator whose work spans jazz groups, studios, and touring ensembles.

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Career Overview

About Bob Sheppard

Sheppard’s official biography traces his professional start in the Philadelphia area and relocation to Los Angeles, where an extended engagement with Freddie Hubbard followed. It identifies saxophones, flute, and clarinet as the woodwinds at the center of his jazz, pop, and studio career.[1]

The artist history separates leader recordings beginning with Tell Tale Signs from recurring ensemble work with Billy Childs and Peter Erskine and from film, television, and sideman sessions. His official video archive preserves performances across several of those settings.[1][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, saxophonist, flutist, and composer

Bob Sheppard leader groups

Sheppard’s leader catalog moves from Tell Tale Signs through Close Your Eyes, From the Hip, and later small-group projects.[1][2]

Saxophonist and woodwind player

Freddie Hubbard groups

The official biography dates a formative multi-year engagement with Hubbard to the beginning of Sheppard’s Los Angeles period.[1]

Session musician, educator, and clinician

Studio and jazz education

Sheppard’s biography documents soundtrack and commercial recording alongside more than a decade of part-time USC teaching and clinic work.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1991

Tell Tale Signs

Leader and saxophonist

Sheppard’s official biography identifies Tell Tale Signs as the beginning of his recording catalog under his own name.[1]

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Close Your Eyes

Leader, saxophonist, and woodwind player

Close Your Eyes continues the leader sequence documented separately from Sheppard’s extensive studio and sideman work.[1]

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2013 · BFM Jazz

From the Hip

Leader, saxophonist, and composer

Sheppard’s first-party album page documents a modern small-group session within his continuing leader catalog.[1][2]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official video archive

Watch Sheppard in leader, sideman, and large-ensemble performances selected by the artist.

From the Hip

Open Sheppard’s first-party page for the complete BFM Jazz leader recording.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sat, Sep 26, 7:00 PM

TÉKA - Brazilian Jazz • New Bossa

Vibrato Grill Jazz · Los Angeles

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Sat, Sep 26, 9:30 PM

TÉKA - Brazilian Jazz • New Bossa

Vibrato Grill Jazz · Los Angeles

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography and career history

    Bob Sheppard

  2. [2] Official From the Hip album page

    Bob Sheppard

  3. [3] Official performance video archive

    Bob Sheppard