December 2007: Jack is headed out for yet another helicopter skiing adventure in northern British Columbia. Pics will be posted in late Decmeber. Lots of music news to report: the song "Trampoline Hero" from lthe latest Diane Ward CD "Wonderlight" charted at #1 for two weeks on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 109 after spending 8 weeks in the Top 10, and "Unloving Game" then charted at #3. Mosr excellent!! Diane and I did a live interview with Sirirus at their studios in NY City and we had a blast with our host Jeremy Hovies... Diane and I are in pre-prduction for her next CD and plan to start tracking in Jack's studio in January 2008.

The new CD "Treachery, Lust and Misfortune" by our Celtic rock group "Three Jacks and a Jill" (featuring Jack on guirtars, Diane Ward on drums and percussion, and Debbie Duke on bass) is now available on CDBaby.com and Itunes. Co-produced by Jack, it has LOTS of cool guitar stuff!!!

Jack continues tracking and production in his studio on new CD's by MAGDA HILLER and Stephanie Callahan from Nashville. Magda and Jack recently were featured performers at the venerable Florida Folk Festival. Jack has also started work producing and playiing oin new projects by Amanda Stallings, Raiford Starke, and our old friend Jim Wurster from Black Janet. Check out Jack's MySpace page to link to all of these very talented artists.

Jack has recentlly been in SonicNerve Studios on South Beach recording tracks for new projects by Tony Moyer and Steven Jude. Jack is also prominently featured on the latest Brian Franklin CD "Desert Farmer".

In his "spare time" (LOL), Jack is playing shows with Diane Ward, Magda Hiller, the Three Jacks, Raiford Strarke, Stephanie Callahan, and others. Check the "Shows" page for details.....

Visit Jack on MYSPACE www.myspace.com/jackshawde.

Jack Shawde is a true craftsman. For the past decade, he has lent his dexterous and soulful stringwork to the music of Miami singer-songwriter Diane Ward, with whom he shares a seemingly supernatural musical connection on-stage and in the studio. Shawde co-produced her latest recording, 2002’s The Great Impossible, and adds texture and shading to her deeply personal music. On the opening “Wide Awake,” he picks a reverb-laden 12-string guitar for a Beatlesque effect. The exuberant “Shooting Rockets” finds him skinning frets with a lean and gritty slide solo. His beautifully picked acoustic solely accompanies Ward’s piano and emotionally naked vocals on the achingly wistful “Perfect Kiss.” And Shawde adds harmonica to his acoustic playing behind Ward and harmonizer Brian Franklin on a stripped-down version of “Baby Look Up.” Besides adding ambient sounds on a couple of tunes, Shawde also strums, picks or plucks lap steel, Mando guitar, baritone guitar and electric EBow guitar, which are just a few of the 60-odd instruments in his arsenal. You’d never know it to see him on-stage in jeans and sleeveless T, but Shawde is also a lawyer with the Miami firm Steel, Hector and Davis.

Read the Cover Story in Street Magazine about the recording of the new Diane Ward CD that was produced by Jack Shawde and also features his guitar playing.

Read the Miami Herald article featuring Jack.

"guitar god" Miami New Times

"...Jack Shawde, whose fluency and imagination as a player, producer and arranger make him one of the regional music scene's indispensable people."  Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, FL