Bobby Shew

Robert Shew (born March 4, 1941) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player.

After leaving college in 1960, Shew was drafted into the U.S. Army and played trumpet with the NORAD band in Colorado Springs and on tour. After leaving the Army, Shew joined Tommy Dorsey's band and then played with the Woody Herman and then the Buddy Rich Big Bands in the mid-to-late 1960s. In 1972 Shew moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles where he did much studio work as well as play with some of the top big bands of the era through the end of the 1970s: Akiyoshi/Tabackin; Bellson; Ferguson; and others. In addition to playing on several notable Big Band recordings starting in the 1960s, Shew recorded several albums as leader starting with 1978's Telepathy.

Shew is now living near Albuquerque, NM. where he has spent time mentoring jazz musicians in the area and leading the local Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra. Additionally, Shew is a member of the faculty at the Skidmore Summer Jazz Institute, a 2-week residential jazz workshop primarily for high school students, located in Saratoga Springs, NY.

As leader

 * Telepathy (Jazz Hounds) 1978
 * Outstanding In His Field (Inner City) 1979
 * Class Reunion (Sutra) 1980
 * Play Song (Jazz Hounds) 1981
 * Shewhorn (Pausa) 1983
 * Trumpets No End (Delos) 1983 – with Chuck Findley
 * Breakfast Wine (Pausa) 1984
 * Round Midnight (MoPro) 1984
 * Aim For The Heart (Gateway) 1987 – with the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra
 * Metropole Orchestra (Mons) 1988
 * Tribute to the Masters (Double Time) 1995
 * Heavyweights (MAMA) 1996 – with Carl Fontana
 * Playing With Fire (MAMA) 1997
 * Salsa Caliente (MAMA) 1998
 * The Music of John Harmon (Sea Breeze) 2001
 * Play Music of Reed Kottler (Torii) 2002 – with Gary Foster "and friends"
 * Live in Switzerland (TCB) 2003 – Bobby Shew / George Robert Quintet
 * I Can't Say No (Four Leaf Clover) 2003
 * One in a Million (Sea Breeze) 2004 – recorded 1990 with The Groovin' High Big Band / Peter Fleischhauer
 * Cancaos Do Amor (Torii) 2007

Honors

 * Outstanding in His Field - Grammy nomination (1980)
 * Heavy Company - Jazz Album of the Year (1983)