SHIM is a grooving, avant-jazz sextet with four horns, bass and drums. "Particle Zoo" was the second CD by the band released in 1999. You might enjoy this recording if you find the music of Ken Vandermark, Steve Lacy, Dave Douglas and Charles Mingus interesting. SHIM was ensemble-in-residence with the EMIT series curated at the Salvador Dali Museum. The sextet began as an experimental improvisatory ensemble that performed at art galleries and mutated into an avant-jazz group combining compositional structure with improvisation. SHIM was given five "Best of the Bay” music awards by Weekly Planet Magazine and was featured on the JazzSouth radio series program #32. The instrumentation for SHIM is trumpet (Keith Hedger), saxophone (David Pate), clarinets (David Irwin), trombone (David Manson), bass (Matt Fagen & Doug Mathew) and drums (Jim Stewart). Some of the artists with which SHIM has appeared and/or collaborated with include ROVA Sax Quartet, Sam Rivers Trio, Eugene Chadbourne, Joe McPhee, Davey Williams of Curlew, Amy Denio, Ned Rothenberg, Gerry Hemingway 4tet, the Shaking Ray Levis and other innovators in creative music. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.