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Pastoral Composure

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2000
Track listing: Gesture; Visions; Prelude to a Kiss; Pastoral Composure; Progression; Frere Jacques; Merge; Inner Order; XTU.

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Matthew Shipp Quartet: Pastoral Composure

Read "Pastoral Composure" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2000

Matthew Shipp went into retirement earlier this year at age 38, after seven years of recording some of the most adventurous free jazz piano in history. Recently Thirsty Ear convinced him to come out of his self-imposed retirement and record a quartet album entitled Pastoral Composure. His new quartet features trumpeter Roy Campbell, bassist William Parker, ...

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Matthew Shipp: Pastoral Composure

Read "Pastoral Composure" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 1, 2000

Creative and free jazz pianist Matthew Shipp knows how to draw traditional jazz and non-jazz listeners to his brand of music. This is his second release for Thirsty Ear, a label where you are more likely to find Henry Rollins than Sonny Rollins. Shipp utilizes the familiar as a device to attract attention, then holds it ...