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Ted Shumate Guitarist, composer, and recording artist Ted Shumate was born May 10, 1953 in Meridian, Mississippi. His earliest musical experiences were the gospel music of the Southern Baptist Church and native Delta Blues. At the age of four, his family moved to the musically rich state of Florida. The great migration of Cubans, South Americans, and other Caribbean nationals in the early 60’s brought a wide variety of experiences to the young musician to absorb, and would later help shape his musical personality.
Ted moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1980 to attend the Guitar Institute of Technology. Upon his graduation, he was hired as an instructor at G.I.T. while also playing and recording in the Los Angeles area. In 1983 Ted was hired as a full-time bandleader/guitarist at the Hurricane Jazz Club (Passagrille, Florida). After a successful five-year stint at the Hurricane, Ted left to do numerous Jazz festivals and international tours when his 1987 release “Gulfstream” (Pausa Records) with Jazz legend Ira Sullivan made the top 10 (Jazz) charts in the U.S.A. and abroad. Some of the noted musicians that Ted has played and/or recorded with are: Nat Adderley (10 years), Ira Sullivan, Red Rodney, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Drew Jr., Joey Barron, Peter Erskine, Branford Marsalis, Lucky Peterson, Sonny Fortune, Larry Willis, Al DiMeola, Walter Booker, Kenny Werner, Gary Dial, Gumbi Ortiz, Jerry Fuller, Chip McNeill, Longineu Parsons, Wynton Marsalis, and many others. Ted has written a guitar instructional book titled “Chords Concepts” (distributed by Hal Leonard Publications), that is used in colleges and universities worldwide. Ted
has recorded 5 CD’s under his own name, his most recent being “El
Toque Del Amor”. He has played on countless other CD’s by numerous
artists in the U.S.A. and abroad.
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