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Upcoming Aum Fidelity Highlights at the Stone.
Among many items in the ongoing mini Aum festival at the Stone are two that incite a few key taps. According to Mr. Aum: “The focus is on jazz forward / avant-garde soul, with select excursions elsewhere. I thank The Stone for the opportunity to ask some of my favorite musicians & human beings to share ...
Vision Festival 16 - June 9: An Evening of Special Projects
The special project nights embody the epitome of the festival and the most striking contrast with the pre packaged, off the shelf bloat fests. And the events are thoughtfully timed to allow for movement between performances in the Main Stage and the Downstairs Theater, where the evening begins with the final panel discussion looking to education ...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions: Apocryphal Fire in the Warehouse, and Other Explanations
by Mark Corroto
The hit-and-miss improvisation of Extraordinary Popular Delusions has to be admired. The quartet's instant composing (or group improvisation) often begins like a psychodynamic free association, with the players relaying whatever comes into their minds. This music making without the censorship of preplanning or forethought can yield gems or germs. EPD band, whose previous ...
Outpost 186 leans in to a piano laden summer for Inman Square, Cambridge
Piano players are coming out of the woodwork at Outpost 186. Mothers Day saw an astonishing turnout for Matthew Shipp, who followed a solo set with a long awaited Jim Hobbs duet, sponsored in part by All About Jazz. A snippet of the night awaits below. After a respite from Memorial Day, Hans Poppel has a ...
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 ...
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