Travis Shook

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Travis Shook

Background information
Birth name	Larry Travis Shook
Born	March 10, 1969(1969-03-10)
Origin	Oroville, California, USA
Genre(s)	Hard bop Modern Creative Progressive jazz Modal jazz Mainstream jazz Post bop
Instrument(s)	Piano
Website	Official Website

Travis Shook (born 1969 in Oroville, California) is a jazz pianist who made his eponymous Columbia Records debut in a quartet that included Tony Williams and Bunky Green. He received much critical acclaim for this first effort, but failed to hold onto the contract when Sony purged a large percentage of the Columbia jazz roster upon acquiring the label in 1993. After spending some time as a member of the Betty Carter Trio, he dropped out of the public eye for a number of years, at least in part due to a publicly acknowledged alcohol/substance abuse problem. In 1993, Travis Shook and his wife, jazz singer Veronica Nunn, started their own record label, Dead Horse Records, which has released four recordings to date. Shook grew up in Olympia, WA, moved to New York City in the mid-1990s and currently resides in Woodstock, NY.