Shane Cooper

Artist 1985 Cape Town connection

Bassist, composer and producer born in 1985, who moved to Cape Town to study jazz at UCT and now works between jazz and electronic music. He plays in the Kyle Shepherd Trio, leads the band Mabuta and records dance music as Card On Spokes. He was the Standard Bank Young Artist for jazz in 2013.

Connections

worked with

Bokani Dyer (2018) Mabuta
Reza Khota (2018) Mabuta, and the quartet before it
Kyle Shepherd Cooper plays bass in his trio
Zim Ngqawana Cooper lists him among past collaborators

was a member of

MABUTA (2018) he launched and leads it
Kyle Shepherd Trio double bass

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