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Take Five with Matthew Shipp
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink of An Eye
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 ...
Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink Of An Eye
by Mark Corroto
If the early works of Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) can be described as voyeuristic, then Blink Of An Eye might just be Frotteurism, the act of touching others, usually in crowds, without their ever knowing. On Blink of an Eye he alters, accents and manipulates a jazz quartet's sound, often without it being obvious.Scanner ...
Matthew Shipp - Sabir Mateen: SaMa
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non hanno bisogno di presentazioni particolari, Matthew Shipp e Sabir Mateen, che il pubblico italiano ha imparato a conoscere in questi anni come due tra i più originali e generosi esponenti della scena creativa nera newyorkese, sia nei tanti progetti che gravitano intorno a William Parker, che con i rispettivi gruppi. Questo lavoro li vede duettare ...
William Parker: I Plan To Stay A Believer
by John Sharpe
From the first few bars of the title cut opening “I Plan To Stay A Believer," the riffing horns, infectiously funky beat and expressive soulful singing of Leena Conquest quickly establishes` this as one of bassist/composer William Parker's most accessible projects. This set has been a long time coming. The idea of a tribute to legendary ...
Vision Festival 2010: Day 7, June 29, 2010
by John Sharpe
Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Charles Gayle, William Parker, Muhammad Ali, Lafayette Gilchrist, Gerald Cleaver, Vladimir TarasovVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York City29 June 2010 For the last evening of the Fifteenth ...
Many Shades of Jazz Come Out at Newport 2010
by R.J. DeLuke
CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 6-8, 2010 The variety of music at the 2010 CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival August 6-9 was one of its notable traits. Mainstream, Latin, electric stuff, ornate orchestral offerings, swing and all kinds of things in between.The originality of the music ...
Vision Festival 2010 - Opening Night
by John Sharpe
Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Opening Invocation, The Blues Escaped, Stomp It, Rob Brown New Quartet, Broken Flowers, In Order To SurviveVision FestivalAbrons Arts Center23 June 2010 After three days of activity ...
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