by Craig Harris\r Launching his career playing trumpet and flugelhorn, Ian Shaw has had his greatest success since shifting his focus to his baritone/tenor vocals. The New York Times praised him for his "complete emotional control of the classic jazz-idiom standards," while Cadence magazine cited his "buttery sound and real jazz singer's ability to improvise along instrumental lines." A native of the small Welsh village of St. Asaph, Shaw hails from a musical family: his grandfather, Chick Smith, played trumpet in dance bands; his father played cornet in brass bands; a cousin, Jimmie Deucher, performed with the Clarke/Boland Big Band. Beginning to play trumpet at the age of 15, he studied with Joe Csibi, the principal trumpet player of the Irish National Symphony Orchestra, and Bobby Shaw of the Buddy Rich and Horace Silver bands. Shaw was equally attracted to vocalizing. He studied harmony with Trevor England and received vocal training at th...