Mark Shim
Mark Shim ( born November 21, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica ) is a jazz saxophonist.
Born in Jamaica, Shim came than eight -month-old infant with his parents to Canada. Five years later, the family settled in the U.S. city of Richmond, the capital of the state of Virginia, down.
A 1991 begun at Virginia Commonwealth University studying jazz sat Shim 1993 at the William Paterson University (New Jersey) away, but decided to leave it to exchange lessons with the stage and moved to Brooklyn, where he participated in jam sessions. During a session in Harlem he fell on Hamiet Bluiett and made his debut in 1995 as guest musicians on the album " Young Warrior, Old Warrior". Then he heard on albums by Mose Allison, Betty Carter, Greg Osby, and the Mingus Big Band, whose member he was.
In 1998, Blue Note released his first album " Mind over Matter", the 2000 " Turbulent Flow" followed. Both albums give yourself a modern touch and are in playful ways often quite fast-paced and complex. Furthermore, they are also characterized by their guest musicians, so playing on the first album of for his " jazz punk " well-known guitarist David Fiuczynski, while on the second album Stefon Harris ( vibraphone) and Edward Simon (piano and Fender Rhodes) for a particular Note worry.
1999 Blue Note entrusted Greg Osby with a project in which this addition to the Blue Note musicians Jung Shim and Harris Jason Moran protege and with them the album " New Directions " recorded. Following these albums Shim came not as a leader, and only rarely as a guest musician in appearance.