The second-annual Spy Music Festival happens June 29th through July 15th , featuring "46 sets of music at 7 venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn." That's a big expansion from last year when it took place on two nights at Shea Stadium and Zebulon. This year's fest, run by the folks at Northern Spy Records , will happen at Union Pool, the Issue Project Room, The Stone, Vaudeville Park, 285 Kent, Death by Audio and Roulette. Amongst the artists performing are Rhys Chatham, Matthew Shipp, Dustin Wong, Arthur Doyle, [...]
The collaboration shows a merger of many ideas in various forms of development, making for an album that's as fun as it is jittery and wide-ranging. Antipop Consortium and Matthew Shipp got together almost a decade ago for an album fetchingly titled Antipop vs Matthew Shipp. Since none of the artists stick to their respective genres (or are easily limited to such categorizations), it probably makes sense that they're back together again, this time blending jazz, hip hop, and general experimentalism for Knives from Heaven. As before, Antipop's represented only by Beans and High Priest (now listed as HPRizm); [...]
More from Matthew Shipp's impeccable 2003 album The Good and Evil Sessions . I love this record. It is seriously tasteful and well-dressed music. The Stakeout is some sublime jazz hip-hop fusion: once Shipp has got his hooks into you he leaves it to bassist William Parker to pull you along. It's the richness and variety of Parker's bass that makes this track for me. Sometimes there's a little voice in my head that says that the bass playing needs to be excellent because this is a record with [...]
Here's a duet album sure to stretch your brain as well as your ears. It's certainly not for everyone. Darius Jones and Matthew Shipp gave themselves a hard task in making an entire album of just sax and piano, performing all new originals. Cosmic Lieder can accurately be called uneasy listening. You have to be pretty versatile with your instrument if you want to make a duet album like this interesting. The more versatile one's skills are, the more challenging the music can become. So when Jones and Shipp sat down and gave the...
Matthew Shipp gave his 50th birthday a few victory laps last year, and this double album is the outcome. There are jazz pianists, and there is Matthew Shipp. The guy actually has three hands: two to play the piano and one to thumb his nose at tradition. He's got quite a mouth too, though it never seems to get him into a whole lot of trouble: "Fuck Herbie Hancock; fuck Wayne Shorter. On a certain level, fuck Louis Armstrong," he said in an interview last year, accusing old veterans of becoming complacent in old...
The knock against free jazz (or avant garde or creative music or any other nomenclature) is usually that the listener doesn't "get" it. The lack of a definable rhythm or melody challenges the listener to such a degree that, rather than put in the time to find a way in, ...
Since setting out as a leader in his own right, Matthew Shipp has mapped out an area of land on the border between jazz and electronic music via his custodianship of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series. Collaborations with artists like El-P, DJ Spooky, Anti-Pop Consortium and Scanner have led him out into some distinctively experimental terrain, which makes his recent return to more conventional formats all the more surprising. His new CD, The Art Of The Improviser showcases his solo piano flights on one disc, and his piano trio excursions on the other. But I guess if you are [...]
WHOLETONE Matthew Shipp Art of the Improviser Thirsty Ear : 2011 MS, piano. Our mini-festival around pianist and composer Matthew Shipp continues with a preview of his upcoming album Art of the Improviser . This wonderful double-disc set marks Shipp's 50th birthday and serves as a sort of career summation. Comprised of two live discs - one with a new acoustic trio and another solo - it [...]
PERHAPS ONE TOUCH OF The Brothers Sandole Modern Music from Philadelphia Fantasy : 1955 DS, guitar; Adolph Sandole, leader; Art Farmer, trumpet; John LaPorta, alto; Sonny Russo, trombone; Al DelGovernatore, piano; Wendell Marshall, bass; Clem De Rosa, drums. PARADIGM Dennis Sandole A Sandole Trilogy Cadence : rec. 1958; rel. 1999 DS, guitar; Al DelGovernatore, piano; Wendell Marshall, [...]
Filed under: All About Jazz 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 see how the music ages - some stuff sounds better now than it did at the time, other stuff that sounded great in [...]
This edition of Influenza focuses on a track from the new collaborative effort by electronic musician Robin Rimbaud and celebrated jazz artists Matthew Shipp, Khan Jamal, Michael Bisio and Michael Thompson, following the song's development and the musicians' contrasting styles.
WELCOME TO EARTH Darius Jones Trio unreleased D:O exclusive August 6, 2008 @ Roulette , NYC DJ, alto; Adam Lane, bass; Jason Nazary, drums. CHAYCH Darius Jones Trio Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing) AUM Fidelity : 2009 DJ, alto; Adam Lane, bass; Jason Nazary, drums. We had [...]
At least it wasn't raining... but another grey day when I arrived in London with any idea of getting down to see the Arshile Gorky exhibition given up when I got out of St Pancras. Got to the Cafe Oto in good time – I had mentally earmarked my position on the bench by the back wall so wanted to get through the doors early enough to grab it. Mission accomplished. Another crowded night for the first leg of New Yorker Matthew Shipp's three day tenure here, tonight supported by the mighty [...]
Over the years, New York pianist Matthew Shipp has been involved with such a diverse set of projects that a three night residency at Cafe Oto could barely scratch the surface. From his experimentations with electronics and hip-hop on his own Blue Series label, to the avant-garde improvisations with the Treader collective helmed by Ashley [...]
As a bandleader, pianist Matthew Shipp has become one of the most vital figures in modern jazz over the last couple of decades, fearlessly blazing a trail through everything from full-on free jazz improv to experiments with electronics, hip-hop, and more. But for all the innovation that occurs when he enters into a collaborative situation, every few years Shipp likes to sit down in front of the ivories all by himself and get his ya-yas out. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his solo efforts are usually just as trenchant and striking as his band recordings, and 4D is no exception. The [...]
Filed under: All About Jazz Matthew Shipp has a great new solo album coming out, but it's his mouth that once again causes a stir. There's been a rumble in the jazz jungle these last few weeks as a new Jazztimes article on the experimental pianist makes the rounds. There has been a number of posts here at All About Jazz with a lot of back-and-forth about comments Shipp made, some new and some published previously. According to Shipp, both Wayne [...]
THESE FOOLISH THINGS GHOSTS BOUNCIN' AROUND Marc Ribot Don't Blame Me DIW : 1995 MR, guitar. Many thanks to all entrants in the contests we ran last week. The song is a duet between McCoy Tyner and Marc Ribot called "Improvisation #2." Congratulations for recognizing the tune and players are due to: Bart White, in "(almost) jazzless Tampa" [...]
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AQUARIAN SOUND YESTERDAYS David S. Ware Flight of I DIW : 1992 DSW, tenor sax; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass; Marc Edwards, drums. The David S. Ware Quartet was the great working group of the 1990s. Given how much this band touches on the key tropes of D:O - forging links between New Thing and old traditions; melding beauty with brawn; making the band primary [...]
" Ether is Southbank Centre's festival of innovation in sound and art with an emphasis on digital culture, cutting-edge collaborations and cross-arts experimentation." Having listened to Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized records frequently for the better part of a decade and a half, I would say makes me a bit of a fan. The fact that I named one of my old radio programmes after their song "The Sound of Confusion", I suppose, makes me a total Spacemen nerd. As my tastes shifted between rock [...]
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