Jazz Articles about Matthew Shipp

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Matthew Shipp: Un Piano

by Lyn Horton
June 7, 2008

Vision does not come all at once. It builds over time and through experience. A component of vision is awareness, for if experience cannot be witnessed and objectified, then awareness might evade consciousness. How to break convention and move into directions that are untapped requires self-confidence and self-trust. Vision and creativity are inseparable, dynamic partners.

On his second solo album, Un Piano, pianist Matthew Shipp demonstrates his fearlessness in stepping outside of the standard that he has set for himself ...

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Matthew Shipp - Guillermo E. Brown: Telephone Popcorn

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 8, 2008

E’ certamente vero che nel pianismo di Matthew Shipp ritornano molte indicazioni tayloriane, ma quello che più colpisce in ogni lavoro che lo vede coinvolto è la natura del suono allucinato e contemporaneo, da cui traspare una sorta di visione solitaria e definitiva. In questo caso è in duo con un musicista che con lui ha lavorato tanto, soprattutto nelle formazioni di David S. Ware. Una simbiosi che raggiunge lo zenith sulla prima traccia del disco, l'illusoria “Between Here and ...

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Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 17, 2007

After a series of daring, sometimes surprising, discs for Thirsty Ear over the last eight years, Matthew Shipp comes forth with what might be his most straightforward, simply enjoyable album. Taking the rich resonance of the piano and the fertile history of the piano trio under his arm, Shipp has made an album that eclipses divisions of “out and “tradition, while standing firmly within his own repertoire. Part of what makes Piano Vortex work on different levels ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio at the Blue Note, NYC

by Lyn Horton
September 8, 2007

The Matthew Shipp Trio The Blue Note New York, New York August 27, 2007

Making a record means freezing music in time. The musicians have done their job for that session. What will be heard will only be that session for as long as the recording lasts. Even though a more acute awareness of the music might develop the more the record is played, the actual document remains the same. Yet, when a group ...

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Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2007

With about twenty years of recorded Matthew Shipp to consider these days, the pianist has grown, expanded his musical vision to include electronics, sampling, total freedom, and, interestingly, the piano jazz tradition. Following his solo effort One (2006) is this very intimate trio record.

The spontaneous compositions of Shipp are accompanied by the sympathetic playing of Joe Morris on bass, instead of his usual guitar, and drummer Whit Dickey. This trio can be compared to the ...

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Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex

by Troy Collins
August 24, 2007

Since the turn of the millennium, pianist Matthew Shipp has ventured further into the realms of electro-acoustic jazz than many of his peers. An intrepid explorer, his open-minded approach to contemporary forms landed him the enviable position of curator for Thirsty Ear's “Blue Series." Shipp has documented a wide variety of projects for the label, from innovative collaborations with underground hip-hop icons Antipop Consortium and programmer FLAM to his solo acoustic piano recording, One (Thirsty Ear, 2006). Shipp ...

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Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex

by Lyn Horton
August 22, 2007

The physical universe and spirit are indivisibly connected. To explain the dynamics that unifies them requires a language accessible to human perceptions. One of those languages is music.

Matthew Shipp has elected to reveal how the universe and spirit interact musically in more ways than one. The endeavor to come out of a period where he took on the task by himself has assumed the form of a trio recording, Piano Vortex (Thirsty Ear, 2007), on which he ...