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...snare a steady and satisfying gig after a year or so, Shedroff plans to stick with jazz and say goodbye to law. But he admits that "the thing that would keep me out of Yale is unlikely to happen in a year or two." Still, he'll never know if he doesn...
...want to see what the New York scene is like," Shedroff says, "because that's where all the great players...
...Shedroff's post-graduate plans are iconoclastic enough to give the most cavalier of parents a coronary or two, but he has received only encouragement from his mother, a former dancer. "She's cool about it--she's the one who really got me into music. The law school thing was all my idea...
...Shedroff lived with his mother, now a librarian at an elementary school, in a one-bedroom apartment in Berkeley, Calif., until he left for college. They were on welfare for his entire childhood, but despite the scarcity of money, Shedroff says his childhood was a nurturing...
...Shedroff also credits his musical success to his upbringing in Berkeley, long a friendly environment for musicians. The school district nurtures hopeful musicians at early ages with jazz bands at the fourth and fifth-grade levels and has produced, in the past, several well-known jazz players. Despite such an encouraging environment, though, Shedroff admits that his work ethic while in high school left more than a little to be desired...