Bobby Shew Interview Part 1

Bobby Shew is legendary in the music world and his name is synonymous with excellence. He is the trumpeter’s trumpeter, a soulful and gifted jazz artist as well an incredible teacher and educator who has influenced trumpeters around the globe. He graciously took time to let us interview him recently and covered many topics. In fact, there’s so much info that we broke this up into two separate episodes. Here on part #1 Shew discusses his early musical influences, ideas on achieving excellence, his approach to articulating jazz, the best way to begin learning jazz along with some interesting and fun storing that include Jack Sheldon, Art Farmer and Doc Severinsen. We hope you'll enjoy this exclusive interview and will let him know what you think. Cheers!