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Lineage and Vision Festival 16: June 5-11
So much of our experience is increasingly place-less as franchise smiles crafted by human resources consultants greet us daily no matter what the biome or weight of memory. The fast food smile and store floor uniform must ever be the same. Crowd counts displace quality practices with childlike aspirations toward some eternal Superbowl as the only ...
Announcing the Winners of the "Matthew Shipp - The Art of the Improviser" Giveaway
Melissa Bishop, Seton Hawkins and Jeff Zielinski, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Thirsty Ear Recordings “Matthew Shipp - The Art of the Improviser“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Thirsty Ear Recordings for more releases. Enjoy ...
Wandering Visions: The 2011 Vision Festival
By Steve Dalachinsky “a paradise of flowers where peace might build her nest." —Percy Shelly For 16 years the Vision Festival has led a nomadic existence. Wandering from one venue to another, this brave band of Visionaries,which I am proud to be a part of, with the ever present, stalwart & persistent Patricia Nicholson Parker at ...
Darius Jones / Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder
by John Sharpe
Duets with saxophonists loom large in pianist Matthew Shipp's discography. His first release featured one such with a young Rob Brown--Sonic Explorations (Cadence Jazz, 1988)--and there have been further outings over the years with other reed men, including Roscoe Mitchell, Ivo Perelman, Evan Parker and Sabir Mateen. To add to that impressive roster comes a worthy ...
Shipp shape: Piano improv master Matthew Shipp has an ear for just about everything
He might be older and wiser, but Matthew Shipp has not mellowed with age. A galvanizing force among the heirs to jazz's avant-garde movement of the 1960s, the pianist has spent the past quarter century building a vast, roiling musical universe. As an invaluable sideman and prolific bandleader, as a sometimes caustic advocate and discerning curator ...
Enter the "Matthew Shipp - The Art of the Improviser" Giveaway
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Thirsty Ear “Matthew Shipp—The Art of the Improviser“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select THREE winners at the conclusion of the contest on May 28th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Matthew Shipp at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your ...
Matthew Shipp - 4D (2010)
By Mark Saleski Over the years I have spent many pen scrawls, pencil swipes, and keystrokes trying to describe what it is about 'out' music that moves me so much. Sometimes it's pretty easy, especially if you take the case of somebody like saxophone terrorist Peter Brotzmann. The man plays with so much force that it's ...
Michael Bisio: Stepping Into the Limelight
by Gregory Applegate Edwards
Bassist Michael Bisio has become an increasingly visual and aural presence on the jazz/improvisation scene in the time since he moved from the west coast to New York. Yet he has been a significant contributor in jazz circles for years, and success was no overnight thing. Among other ongoing associations, Bisio is currently the bassist in ...
Matthew Shipp - Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear, 2011)
Over his career on the jazz scene, Matthew Shipp has patiently developed a unique piano and improvisation style. Apprenticing with the likes of saxophonists David S. Ware and Roscoe Mitchell has allowed him to develop a style of performing that draws on the length and breadth of the piano and all of the opportunities enclosed within. ...
Shipp and Parker play together at BAsics Event in Harlem on April 11th
"On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World" Monday, April 11, 7pm Harlem Stage Aaron Davis Hall, on the campus of the City College of New York 150 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street #1 trains to 137th Street and ...
