SHADI FRICK (Low Key Studios)

Multi-instrumentalist and longtime music educator Shadi Frick hails from Southern Illinois. Shadi specializes in jazz and funk, and is accomplished on the bass, guitar, saxophone, keyboards and drums, seen and heard playing throughout the Midwest.

Shadi owns Low Key Studios, where he has produced records for Michael Eric, Big Larry, King Juba, Sharon Clark, Bosco & Whiteford, Ivas John Band, D. Brian Smith, Larry Dillard's Blues Therapy, The Phonics, and Peyton and Peers, to name a few.

He has worked with Jazz instructor Robert Allison; Bassists Ford Lee Frick, Carol Kaye, and Philip Brown; Guitarists Ron Frick, Joe Palermo, and Joe Breznikar; Clarinetist Eric Mandat; Saxophonists Tyler Kuebler, Todd Rewoldt, Buddy Rogers, and Ted Petith.

Shadi's 20+ years in music education have helped shape countless individuals' love and appreciation for music of all types.

When designing his guitar, Shadi and I selected Madagascar rosewood and Italian Alpine spruce for its round, beautiful fundamental sound and lush overtones. The inlay work on the fretboard is a nod to traditional block inlays found on jazz bases, with an abstract, modern twist. The other inlay appointments found on the back, end graft, headstock, and rosette contextualize the fretboard inalys, and tie the instrument together into an artistically cohesive unit.