Jazz Articles about Matthew Shipp

About Matthew Shipp

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Pianist Matthew Shipp's artistic collaboration community is a counterpart to his business community. It is its own ecosystem of multidisciplinary work, scholarly conversations and mentorship.The TrioThe trio is Shipp's main vehicle. It is, by turns, his midnight train, his slow boat to China and a way of flying home. It takes a hike, rides a bike and covers lots of ground. It sails and it soars. And who can better describe it than the ensemble proprietor ...

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Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 4, 2013

It takes more than a degree of chutzpah for any modern day jazzer to title a collection Greatest Hits, let alone a doyen of the avant-garde. But pianist Matthew Shipp has never shied away from controversy--indeed, on occasion has actively courted it. Slightly apologetically, sleeve note annotator Tad Hendrickson points out that the selections were those singled out in reviews, played on radio, or which provoked a notable response when performed live. So what's on offer here is a dozen ...

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Matthew Shipp - Joe Morris: Broken Partials

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 13, 2012

Una suite di sessantadue minuti suddivisa in otto movimenti, è questo il campo di gioco sul quale Matthew Shipp e Joe Morris giocano la loro partita a a scacchi. Perché Broken Partials è tutto un muovere di pedine, di mosse ardite, di spostamenti improvvisi, di ribaltamenti imprevisti, di strategie sofisticate. E di grande musica. Una registrazione adeguata, realizzata al Roulette di New York, porta in superficie tutta la profondità acustica degli strumenti esplorati con grande tecnica e sensibilità dai due ...

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Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shape

by Chris Rich
August 12, 2012

Pianist Matthew Shipp is very keenly attuned to the details and nuances of what has to be the most forlorn and anemic environment imaginable for anything a sensible person would call business. Think of it as the sort of business ecosystem that resembles the least habitable places on earth, say a fumarole at the bottom of an ocean.While showbiz jazz at least has a small business infrastructure commensurate with a mid-level touring rock band, free jazz has no ...

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Matthew Shipp with Mat Maneri & Joe Morris: Duos

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2012

Duos riunisce alcuni brani tratti da Thesis, duetto di Matthew Shipp con il chitarrista Joe Morris datato 1997, e altri tratti da Gravitational Systems, album registrato l'anno successivo da Shipp con il violinista Mat Maneri. La perfetta alternanza dei brani tra un'incisione e l'altra non è un semplice escamotage organizzativo ma un segnale di circolarità espressiva e di comunione d'intenti visto che entrambi gli interlocutori intrecciavano a più riprese e in diverse formazioni il loro percorso con quello del leader. ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio: Elastic Aspects

Read "Elastic Aspects" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 27, 2012

Even with a discography amassing over 40 releases under his own name, pianist Matthew Shipp continues to justify the plaudits. Sometimes it can be hard to find new things to say about artists who have been active over such a lengthy period, but Shipp keeps ringing the changes to provide talking points. Unlike the stellar live double-disc Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear, 2011), Elastic Aspects is a studio outing featuring the pianist's trio of bassist Michael Bisio alongside longstanding ...

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Matthew Shipp: Elastic Aspects

Read "Elastic Aspects" reviewed by William Carey

by William Carey
February 26, 2012

There is a moment fairly early on in pianist Matthew Shipp's Elastic Aspects, when the solo piano that has been hypnotizing for several minutes ends and is replaced by a rather angry and anxious sounding bass, bowed fervently by trio mate Michael Bisio. It is startling, and is soon replaced by the feathery light drumming of Whit Dickey, with Shipp pecking intermittently. Bisio then rejoins his partners, sounding nimble and agile, pizzicato now, and the three roll along happily for ...