October 2008: Songs from Diane Ward's CD "The Great Impossible" are featured in the documentary "Blindsided" which airs on HBO this month.... Diane and Jack continue work her next CD, Basic tracks have been recorded, and we are hard at work in my studio doing production and tracking....Stay tuned....Check out Diane's webisite for upcoming shows....I'm looking forward to another heliskiing trip in northern British Columbia in December....steep and deep!

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!!! The Three Jacka will tour Peru after the beginning of the year as part of our charitable efforts to help the child victims of last year's earthquake....check out the Three Jack's website for more info for this very worthy cause.

The new Stephanie Callahan CD is in the final stages.....and it sounds mighty fine! Jack continues tracking and production in his studio on new CD's by MAGDA HILLER. Jack has also started work producing and playing on 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 finished produing and playing on by Tony Moter and Steven Jude recorded at SonicNerve Studios on South Beach. 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, in addition to frequent calls for studio sessions.....

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