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Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Amalgam
by John Sharpe
Amalgam constitutes the seventeenth disc, spread across ten albums from the near symbiotic union of Brooklyn-based Brazilian tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and American pianist Matthew Shipp. And that doesn't even touch on Perelman's many trio and quartet dates which include Shipp. So it's fair to say that they know each other's unique styles fairly well by now. Even so each session seems to refine and expose new facets of their interplay. While previously documented encounters like Live In Nuremburg have ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman with Arcado String Trio: Deep Resonance
by Troy Dostert
Throughout his long and prolific recording career, Ivo Perelman has recorded with a large number of free improvisation's leading lights. Pianist Matthew Shipp stands at the top of the pile, with over two dozen joint appearances; Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver, Whit Dickey, William Parker, and many others help comprise the long list of associates he's maintained since the 1990s. But one would be remiss to ignore the occasional, yet important, work he has done with string players. Violinist/violist Mat Maneri ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Live in Nuremberg
by John Sharpe
Even after countless encounters, Brazilian-born, NYC-based saxophonist Ivo Perelman and American pianist Matthew Shipp still find abundant inspiration in each other's company. Unlike the shorter cuts on most of their studio sessions, Live In Nuremburg presents an intense but rewarding unbroken 55-minute concert, with a four-minute encore, captured in crystal-clear fidelity, in the titular German city. It portrays two souls in complete communion with only their intuition to guide them. Unique stylists, instantly identifiable after only a few ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman: Live in Nuremberg
by Hrayr Attarian
The captivating and tense Live In Nuremberg is an improvised duet between saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp captured on June 24, 2019, at the Kulturwerkstatt Auf AEG, during the German “The Art of Improvisation" festival. In a way it is the culmination of their collaboration that spans a quarter of a century and two dozen releases. The entire album consists of a single, almost an hour long, track plus a short encore, both interpreted with breathtaking energy and ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Bobby Kapp: Ineffable Joy
by John Sharpe
It can be hard not to reach for words like 'transcendent' when listening to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman. He balances his love of the upper registers with an unsentimental lyricism which is difficult to resist. For his ESP debut, Perelman reconvenes the trusted line-up from Heptagon (Leo, 2017) of long-standing associate pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker and drummer Bobby Kapp on eight collectively-sculpted pieces from a studio session in April 2018. They create music in an alchemy ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Live in Nuremberg
by Karl Ackermann
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp are as prolific a team of improvisers as jazz offers. The pair have been bringing their spontaneous music to global audiences for much of the last ten years but their partnership dates back decades. Perelman and Shipp have released ten duo recordings in the past five years and another dozen in larger group formations. What makes Live in Nuremberg stand out in an already impressive catalog, is how the two perform in ...
Continue ReadingIvo Perelman: Strings 1
by Glenn Astarita
Strings 1 and Strings 2 are concurrent releases--the first of seven themed albums--that also could have been subtitled “The Art of Improvisation," hearkening back to tenor sax titan Ivo Perelman's 6-volume 2016 releases, featuring longtime collaborator, cellist Mat Maneri and others. Hence, the cellist appears on both of these new Chamber-like groupings as Strings 2 also features luminaries, cellist Hank Roberts and his first on-disc encounter with reedman Ned Rothenberg. Here, world-class violinists Mark Feldman and Jason Hwang ...
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