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Matthew Shipp Trio: "The Multiplication Table" on Hatology 656
Matthew Shipp Trio: The Multiplication Table on Hatology 656 Matthew Shipp -piano, William Parker -double bass and Susie Ibarra -drums Shipp's music displays his own thought processes, and in trio lays out a physical trail reflecting the way the three players think along with each other. Following those thoughts leads us deep into a new jazz ...
Piano Vortex
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Piano Vortex; Keywswing; The New Circumstance; Nooks and Corners; Sliding Through Space; Quivering with Speed; Slips Through The Fingers; To Vitalize
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Kurt Gottschalk
After a series of daring, sometimes surprising, discs for Thirsty Ear over the last eight years, Matthew Shipp comes forth with what might be his most straightforward, simply enjoyable album. Taking the rich resonance of the piano and the fertile history of the piano trio under his arm, Shipp has made an album that eclipses divisions ...
Matthew Shipp Trio at the Blue Note, NYC
by Lyn Horton
The Matthew Shipp Trio The Blue Note New York, New York August 27, 2007 Making a record means freezing music in time. The musicians have done their job for that session. What will be heard will only be that session for as long as the recording lasts. Even though a ...
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 ...
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