Shane Endsley


Shane Endsley is an American trumpeter, drummer, and composer. He is a founding member of Kneebody, as well as an active leader and sideman with other New York City jazz musicians, as well as with pop and rock musicians such as Ani DiFranco and Pearl Jam.

Background

Endsley was born in 1975 in Denver, Colorado, and studied trumpet, percussion, and composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he met the other members of Kneebody. Since then, he has toured and recorded with Ani DiFranco and Steve Coleman and has done work with Slavic Soul Party, Ralph Alessi, Tim Berne, Ravi Coltrane, John Hollenbeck and others in the downtown music and jazz scenes. He resides in Brooklyn.

Discography

As leader

2nd Guess
  • ''The Other''

As co-leader

With KneebodyKneebody Low Electrical Worker Kneebody Live: Volume One Twelve Songs by Charles Ives Kneebody Live: Volume Two/Italy You Can Have Your Moment Kneebody Live: Volume Three/Paris The Line – recorded in 2012Kneedelus Anti-Hero By Fire Chapters Live at Le Crescent
  • ''Reach''

As sideman

With Ralph AlessiHissy Fit Vice & Virtue Anastomosi
With Steve ColemanGenesis & the Opening of the Way The Sonic Language of Myth The Ascension to Light
With Ani DiFrancoRevelling/Reckoning So Much Shouting So Much Laughter Evolve
With others