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Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Mark Corroto
With about twenty years of recorded Matthew Shipp to consider these days, the pianist has grown, expanded his musical vision to include electronics, sampling, total freedom, and, interestingly, the piano jazz tradition. Following his solo effort One (2006) is this very intimate trio record. The spontaneous compositions of Shipp are accompanied by ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Troy Collins
Since the turn of the millennium, pianist Matthew Shipp has ventured further into the realms of electro-acoustic jazz than many of his peers. An intrepid explorer, his open-minded approach to contemporary forms landed him the enviable position of curator for Thirsty Ear's “Blue Series." Shipp has documented a wide variety of projects for the label, from ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Lyn Horton
The physical universe and spirit are indivisibly connected. To explain the dynamics that unifies them requires a language accessible to human perceptions. One of those languages is music. Matthew Shipp has elected to reveal how the universe and spirit interact musically in more ways than one. The endeavor to come out of a period ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by James Taylor
Jarring melodies, lively rhythms, electro-jazz-funk, and spoken word fusions--these are the things Matthew Shipp fans have come to associate with the pianist's music. Piano Vortex reminds us that Shipp is a master of his instrument in any format and not just a wily experimentalist, an avant-garde agitator or boundary busting bombast. With Joe Morris (bass) and ...
Matthew Shipp: Tripling the Play
by Lyn Horton
When Matthew Shipp was a teenager, he had a job as a cocktail pianist. His motivation was to sound “like any old jazz pianist." He did “what any other jazz pianist would do, that is, study everything you can get your hands on to get a backlog of material which means learning standards." A “religious" inner ...
Matthew Shipp Talks Jazz
Featuring the music of Matthew Shipp
Duration: 12:40
Matthew Shipp: One
by David A. Cobb
While Matthew Shipp's more recent releases focus on a mixture of avant garde electronica and trip-hop, he returns to his roots and a back-to-basics approach with the songs on One. The album, the latest release in Thirsty Ear's Blue Series (for which Shipp does A&R work), consists of nothing but a man and his piano, and ...
Matthew Shipp: One
by Nic Jones
It might be argued that the solo piano recital is a fraught thing on record, and certainly there have been examples in the past where self-indulgence has taken over from the rigours of self-editing. Similarly, unless a pianist has at least a reasonably firm musical identity, it might be the case that the listener's attention starts ...
Harmony & Abyss
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ion; New ID; 3 in 1; Virgin Complex; Galaxy 501; String Theory; Blood 2 the Brain; Invisible Light; Amino Acid; Abyss
