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Matthew Shipp: The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp

by Karl Ackermann
In a broad-themed 2023 interview with All About Jazz, Matthew Shipp described The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp as his grand statement for who I am now." With this solo release, we have a time-stamp in the composer's constantly evolving portfolio. As we trace Shipp's music from his first solo work, Symbol Systems (No More Records, 1995), ...
Fay Victor, Tyshawn Sorey, Matthew Shipp & Jaimie Branch

by Maurice Hogue
Vocalist Fay Victor's new solo album, Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful, is one of the featured new recordings in this episode of One Man's Jazz. She plays everything on the album. The much-respected drummer Tyshawn Sorey continues to explore the traditional piano trio with the release of Continuing, while Matthew Shipp takes the solo route for ...
Stephen Gauci / Francisco Mela / William Parker / Matthew Shipp: Live at Scholes Street Studio

by John Sharpe
Tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci provokes blistering unfettered performances from the starry cast on another installment of Live At Scholes Street Studio. Gauci embodies a fierce DIY ethos which manifests in producing multiple concert series in NYC as well as releasing consequent material on his own label and posting video documentation on his website. On this occasion, ...
Henry Threadgill Ensemble, Michel Lambert & Phil Haynes

by Maurice Hogue
Featured in this episode is the much-acclaimed and premier innovator in creative music, Henry Threadgill with his ensemble; you'll hear the entire first movement from his brand new The Other One . Also new this week, Canadian drummer Michel Lambert with a Finnish band, members of which he played with on guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim's infamous Krakatau, ...
Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt

by Karl Ackermann
Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt Clifford Allen 205 Pages ISBN: # 2953150870 RogueArt 2023 Clifford Allen, a contributor to a number of jazz publications including All About Jazz, is the author of Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt, Allen's first book. He takes on the iconic improviser's ...
Lina Allemano Four, Matthew Shipp Trio & Maneri/Leandre/Taborn

by Maurice Hogue
What's new? Lots of recent releases to dig into--from Toronto trumpeter Lina Allemano, Daniel Carter / William Parker / Leo Genovese / Francisco Mela for the first time, Matthew Shipp's re-release of em>Circular Temple, the trio of Mat Maneri, Joelle Leandre & Craig Taborn, Argentinean duo of bassist Nicolas Ojeda and pianist German Lema, Swedish quartet ...
East Axis: No Subject

by Karl Ackermann
Pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist Kevin Ray, and drummer Gerald Cleaver return for No Subject, the sophomore release from the quartet East Axis. One point on the axis has changed with the journeyman, multi-reedist Scott Robinson replacing saxophonist Allen Lowe. Robinson is a veteran of many prestigious and diverse groups including the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Maria ...
Catching Up With Matthew Shipp

by Mark Corroto
As Matthew Shipp enters his sixth decade he has nothing left to prove to the jazz cognoscenti. He has for 40-plus years worked at crafting an instantly recognizable language at the piano. When he moved to Manhattan's Lower East Side in the '80s, he immersed himself in the same do-it -yourself culture that produced the post-punk ...
I Heart The Jazz With Strings Genre + Porgy & Bess

by David Brown
I heart the jazz with strings genre. Tonight, the most bizarre of these records, the great Johnny Hodges with Lawrence Welk's Orchestra. We then check our coats at the famed Chicago supper club Mr. Kelly's for some vocals from Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day. Then, after a set of new releases including Chicago's Natural Information Society ...
Noah Howard: Quartet To At Judson Hall, Revisited

by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Noah Howard is a musician deserving wider recognition. Born in New Orleans in 1943, like many black musicians he began playing music in the church. After a stint in the army, he settled on the West Coast where the avant-garde was progressing outside the purview of New York, which at the time was considered the ...