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Album

Solos: The Jazz Sessions

Label: Thirsty Ear
Released: 2010

Album

Creation Out Of Nothing (Live In Moscow)

Label: United One
Released: 2010

Album

4D

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: 4D; The Crack In The Piano's Egg; Equilibrium; Teleportation; Dark Matter; Stairs; Jazz Paradox; Blue Web In Space; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Autumn Leaves; Sequence And Vibration; Frere Jacques; Prelude To A Kiss; What A Friend We Have In Jesus; Primal Harmonic; Greensleeves.

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News: Award / Grant

Best Jazz Albums of 2010

Best Jazz Albums of 2010

For the music obsessed, every year has a musical identity that's colored by the new albums and songs that receive steady play on our various devices. I generally love doing these year-end things because it gives me a chance to go back to pieces that jumped out at the time. More than that, it's interesting to ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Matthew Shipp

Jazz Musician of the Day: Matthew Shipp

All About Jazz is celebrating Matthew Shipp's birthday today! Matthew ShippMatthew 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... more Website | ...

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News: Recording

Honoring Matthew Shipp's 50 Year Opus: Thirsty Ear Recordings releases "The Art of the Improviser" Feb 2011

Honoring Matthew Shipp's 50 Year Opus: Thirsty Ear Recordings releases "The Art of the Improviser" Feb 2011

For the better part of fifty years Matthew Shipp has been on a tireless journey to innovate a musical language that is at once so cerebral, emotional and physical that it becomes universally intelligible. Shipp has aspired to engineer an eclectically unprecedented sound, one capable not only of invigorating the jazz world, but potent enough to ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Matthew Shipp

Read "Take Five with Matthew Shipp" reviewed by AAJ Staff


DOB: December 7, 1960 In: Wilmington, Delaware First Musical Memory: “My uncle (James) playing a Beethoven piece on piano." Music Inspirations: “Metaphysics and understanding the vibration language behind cosmos." Hobbies/Interests: “Metaphysics, boxing, pro wrestling." Last Book Read: “Lampshade by Mark Jacobson." Favorite TV Show: ...

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News: Award / Grant

Matt Shipp Appointed 2011 Master Artists-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts

Matt Shipp Appointed 2011 Master Artists-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts

Since 1982, Atlantic Center for the Arts' residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work and collaborate during three-week residencies at their Florida facility. Jazz composer and performer Matt Shipp was named a Master Artist-in-Residence for the Spring of 2011. Shipp will personally select a group of talented, emerging and ...

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News: Recording

Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

The blending of jazz and electronics has been one of the more difficult musical challenges, as it attempts to humanize the machine or mechanize the free spirit of improvisation. It's a very tricky balance to get right, as they can be on a collision course with each other. British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain ...

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Article: Album Review

Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink of An Eye

Read "Blink of An Eye" reviewed by Lyn Horton


From the very first sounds heard on Blink of An Eye's “Shadow Splice," a ground is gradually established with bass piano chords, a minor-key string bass arco line, a floating vibe resonance and steady pulse rising from the cymbals. As the Ellingtonian “Blues In C" evokes, the source of improvisational music is the ...


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