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Album

I've Been To Many Places

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: I've Been To Many Places; Summertime; Brain Stem Grammer; Pre Formal; Web Play; Tenderly; Life Cycle; Brain Shatter; Symbolic Access; Waltz; Reflex; Naima; Where Is The Love; Light Years; Where Is The Love (reprise); Blue Astral Bodies; Cosmic Wave.

Album

Root Of Things

By Matthew Shipp

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Root Of Things; Jazz It; Code J; Path; Pulse Code; Solid Circut.

Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2014

Here are eleven new releases, reviewed at All About Jazz, which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Nicole Mitchell The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art Records) Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. On their second outing she ...

Article: Year in Review

Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2014

by Troy Collins
December 17, 2014

Considering the quantity of recordings released in a year's time, attempting to compile an end of the year list mentioning every first-rate session would be difficult at best. The ten titles included below are among the most exceptional new jazz albums I've heard in 2014. Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire ...

Article: Album Review

Darius Jones, Matthew Shipp: The Darkseid Recital

Read "The Darkseid Recital" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
December 17, 2014

Delicati e sospesi impressionismi, movimentate evoluzioni in cui le asciutte sezioni del sax si sovrappongono al continuo e turbolento sottofondo tramato dal piano, rarefazioni caratterizzate da sonorità puntigliose del piano ed eccentriche del sax, scorribande free con i due strumenti legati inscindibilmente in un flusso turbinoso, frasi melodiche innestate su insistenze percussive... Queste ed altre situazioni ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Matthew Shipp

December 7, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Matthew Shipp's birthday today! Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly became one ...

Article: Live From New York

Matthew Shipp, Marc Ribot, Dorado Schmitt & Randy Weston

by Martin Longley
December 2, 2014

The Matthew Shipp Trio Dizzy's Club November 3, 2014 It's not often that a hero of New York's alternative downtown improvising scene ventures uptown to play a mainline jazz club. It's even more of a rarity for a Dizzy's set to consist of a single long piece. In fact, ...

Article: Catching Up With

John Butcher: So Far

by Sammy Stein
November 7, 2014

Saxophonist John Butcher's career could have taken an academic path. He completed a Ph.D in theoretical physics--Charmed Quarks to be precise--but left the academic world behind shortly thereafter. As a saxophonist, Butcher has played with and collaborated with many musicians. He is not afraid to try completely off the wall musical experimentation.

Article: In the Artist's Own Words

The Most Beautiful Thing

by Michael Bisio
September 26, 2014

For me music is full of magic, mystery, spirituality, joy, passion and fire, blue to red, yet my journey to conceptualize finds me chasing the most objective truths I can discover, truths stripped of every aesthetic element possible. In High School during an intro to theory class my teacher announced: music is sound in time. We ...

Article: Album Review

Brian Groder Trio: Reflexology

Read "Reflexology" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 15, 2014

The cover of trumpeter Brian Groder new trio tells much about his aesthetics. He is well-versed with the compositional ideas of the great American jazz masters and their improvisation strategies--Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, including trumpeters as Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard. But in the same manner that these innovative and creative muscians marked their ...