A webpage about the album 'Hard Believer' by the band Believers, published in February 2025. It features the band’s name, album title, artist information, a review, and an image of the album cover.
Book cover titled "Human Activity: Dream of the Possible" by Brad Shepik, featuring a black and white photograph of a person walking on a winding wooden path in nature.
Cover of a publication titled 'Brad Shepik: Human Activity: Dream of the Possible,' featuring a black and white image of a person walking on a wooden pathway with trees and sunlight in the background.
Screenshot of a music review article about jazz musician Brad Shepik, including text and a small album cover image.
Book cover of Brad Shepik's 'Human Activity: Dream of the Possible' showing a black and white image of a woman holding an umbrella on a pathway surrounded by trees.
Screenshot of a webpage titled 'Jazz Weekly' featuring a review for Brad Shepik's 'Human Activity: Dream of the Possible.' The page includes navigation buttons, a highlighted review on the left, and a cover image of the album showing a person walking on a path in a scenic, somewhat dark landscape.
Screenshot of an article titled "The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, October 2024" by Dave Sumner, published on November 6, 2024. The article discusses jazz music, featuring album cover art for Brad Shepik's "Human Activity: Dream of the Possible," with associated promotional graphics and brief text.
A webpage featuring an album review for Brad Shepik's 'Human Activity: Dream of the Possible,' with a large blue and yellow 'All About Jazz' logo at the top and a black and white cover image of the album showing a person walking along a path with trees.
A screenshot of a text review discussing human activity and performances of various musical pieces, including 'Code Red,' 'All Hard's,' 'Orange Haze,' and 'Travel Back.' The review highlights the emotional and technical aspects of the performances, emphasizing dynamics, rhythms, and expressive qualities.
A screenshot from a video titled 'Dream of the Possible' by Brad Shepik with four musicians in a recording studio, including a pianist, a guitarist, a drummer, and a bass player, all engaged in a music session.

 Press Quotes on Brad Shepik and Human Activity

“Human Activity Suite” (Songlines), the absorbingly eclectic new album by the guitarist Brad Shepik, harnesses folk traditions from across the world to make a light-handed statement about global warming". Nate Chinen, New York Times

“Shepik employs his expertise in multiple musical cultures to deliver an eloquent statement of equal artistic, political, and humanistic urgency. “ Franz Matzner Allaboutjazz.com

“It’s the meditative richness of the music – its compelling sense of endangered cultures and the quiet intensity of its feelings – that gives this work its character…Shepik [is] among the most articulate and quickest-witted of guitarists…”– Stuart Broomer, AllAboutJazz

“A powerful indictment of mankind's role in global warming, Human Activity Suite is guitarist Brad Shepik's most expansive and earnest project to date,” Troy Collins Allaboutjazz.com

“The New York City-based guitarist/composer presents an imaginative travelogue-type program that is as moving melodically and harmonically as it is sonically. Martin Gladu Allaboutjazz.com

“A thoughtful composer and sensitive player player with a keen ear for harmony and rhythmic nuance” Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

“His solos were exemplary in their fluidity and lyricism. He delights in showcasing his guitar mastery before an audience.” UK Jazzwise

"Guitarist Brad Shepik was the bright spot of the evening - his solos were consistently bright, inventive and cliche free and his choice of chords was always interesting" Ian Mann, Cheltenham Jazz Review

“This beautiful collaboration, offers further evidence for Shepik as one of the most consistently creative and stimulating guitarist-composers on the scene today” Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

“a breath of fresh air”- Punchland on the album”Top Down"

“Shepik’s got the mind of a pioneer. The rhythmic complexity of his compositions has few parallels in jazz -or any other genre, for that matter. Withall his exotic influences, and all his different axes, he makes us rethink whatit means to be a guitarist and a musician. There’s no telling where he’ll go next.” —All About Jazz

“Shepik is one of the new jazz players who have redefined the “creative” or avant-garde side of the music in a way that is challenging but also beautiful and fun.”—Will Layman, Popmatters Music Review