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	Matthew Shipp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American free jazz pianist.
		Shipp has been very active in the 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a leader, sideman or producer.
		Shipp was raised in Washington, DC and began playing piano at six years old.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Shipp (172 words)

	Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
		Matthew Shipp calls this release for Thirsty Ear’s Blue Series “a synthesis of what I’ve learned from all my other Blue Series albums.” In many ways, it does seem to represent a bit of a consolidation after the very modern way forward demonstrated on Shipp’s previous album, Nu Bop.
		Shipp claims that this recording, while it continues to explore the fusion of new beat and DJ elements with the language of modern jazz, also works to develop a “jazz ambient music” as well as exploring the elasticity of the music’s very language.
		Shipp borrows from all of these forms, and others as well, breaking down their language into elements and then reassembling those elements into something not-quite-familiar yet not without precedent.
	www.jazzitude.com /shipp_equilibrium.htm (518 words)

	cmj.com \| new music first
		Matthew Shipp's latest is like a jazz advent calendar, a collection of miniature improvisational surprises connected by one theme: the solo acoustic piano.
		It's "free," and minimal, but entirely accessible; Shipp's got a deceptive swagger—he's an impresario moonlighting as the tipsy piano bar entertainer, winking slyly as he jolts from meandering indulgence to sobering flights of genius.
		Bluesy passages are peppered with experiments in jaunty dissonance, until Shipp's agile hands scurry across the keys, possessed; the most brilliant moments recall a meth-injected cat tethered to the keyboard that slips into Debussy as soon as you look away.
	prod1.cmj.com /articles/display_article.php?id=9047249 (166 words)

	Matthew Shipp - A&E>>Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shipp's been plugging away to the tune of over 20 CD releases.
		Yet Shipp felt the traditional jazz sound had become "very tired", and he set out to change that feeling with the revolutionary Blue series.
		Shipp surrounds himself with the utmost of talent in bassist William Parker, vibraphonist Khan Jamal, and drummer Gerald Cleaver and all gel together better than milk and cookies.
	www.uwmleader.com /news/2003/02/05/Aemusic/Matthew.Shipp-1985856.shtml (272 words)

	VH1.com : Matthew Shipp : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Through his range of live and recorded performances and unswerving individual development, Shipp came to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music by the decade's close.
		Shipp later studied music theory and improvisation under Clifford Brown's teacher Robert "Boisey" Lawrey, as well as classical piano and bass clarinet for the school band.
		In 2004 Shipp released Harmony and Abyss, a meditation on repetitive melodic and harmonic structures.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/shipp_matthew/bio.jhtml (438 words)

	New Orbit : Matthew Shipp Quartet : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		Matthew Shipp and Thirsty Ear have brought back something that was largely missing in creative improvised music through their Blue Series jazz line—the concept of the programmatic album as a viable medium of expression.
		Shipp and Thirsty Ear have recognized and acted upon these concerns with the Blue Series, paring disc lengths down to near LP durations and paying particularly close attention to the programmatic properties of the albums they're releasing.
		Shipp makes the claim that this disc is the culmination of 10 years and 17 recordings, "the album I've always wanted to make", in his own words.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/s/shipp-matthew/new-orbit.asp (674 words)

	CD Review of Matthew Shipp - One on Thirsty Ear @ jazzreview.com
		Matthew Shipp’s One is nothing shy of an overt statement about belief in everything, spiritual, psychical, physical, mystical.
		Shipp cradles us and himself through the intensity of his process of opening up roads less traveled, the roads on which he may take steps familiar and memorable to the listener, but which, to the extent that the recording allows, are steps that, in the aftermath, are purely indigenous to this road.
		Shipp takes the road where the overtones of the notes he plays radiate into the atmosphere, irretrievable in their Hertz-ian energy, yet are entirely installed in the universal aural memory.
	www.jazzreview.com /cd/review-17496.html (564 words)

	Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop
		From wild assaults of space by Shipp and bassist William Parker, to moments of unique quietness, Shipp is an extreme experimentalist.
		Through his range of live and studio performances and unswerving individual development, Shipp has come to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music.
		Shipp emerges from the end of a century as a wrecker and a creator.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /april_2002/shipp.html (450 words)

	Matthew Shipp News
		Matthew Shipp: A mind at work Burning the Diorama For a while, it looked as if jazz had gotten stuffed and mounted.
		Matthew Shipp - One Matthew Shipp's latest album for Thirsty Ear takes a break from his 'jazztronica' experiments of the past few years for a brief solo piano recital.
		Matthew Shipp has spent much of his recent past driving his piano through a lot of unfamiliar sound landscapes.
	www.topix.net /who/matthew-shipp (510 words)

	[The New] Rolling Stone Album Guide: Matthew Shipp
		Shipp also recorded frequently as the leader of small groups, where his distinctive piano -- think of a more muscular Monk and a more deliberate Powell exploring in depth terrain that Cecil Taylor first flew over -- engaged in intimate dialogue with other stalwart avant-gardists.
		But Shipp was also producing other Thirsty Ear artists, and his work with Spring Heel Jack started to bring together elements of free jazz, DJ culture, and hip-hop in fruitful ways.
		Shipp's studio groups also form the sonic tapestrly for collaborations with assorted DJs, rappers, and studio wizards, under their own names or the default Blue Series Continuum.
	www.tomhull.com /ocston/arch/rs/shipp,matthew.php (879 words)

	Amazon.ca: Equilibrium: Books: Matthew Shipp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even though I wouldn't yet call Shipp a genius as I would Coltrane, he definitely carries that spiritual depth throughout his diverse compositions, evidence that Shipp's craft is as passionate and personal as it is cerebral and inventive.
		Shipp's piano playing is exploratory and unfettered, but not as wild and wooly as that of his frequent employer David S. Ware.
		Shipp has been charting an interesting course for himself over the past few years, and if this album is any indication, all bets are off as to where his next foray might take him.
	www.amazon.ca /Equilibrium-Matthew-Shipp/dp/B00007L7LX (1552 words)

	Music: Matthew Shipp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 38-year-old Shipp is responding to a question about claims that he's sought out the indie-rock audience that embraced him well before many jazz fans.
		So on one hand the answer is no: Shipp does not cater his bold improvisations to what he thinks Hole fans might imagine as jazz.
		Shipp's recordings have been proliferating of late--more and more on Euro avant-garde jazz labels like Hat ART and FMP, and so have his formations.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/070899/music6.html (429 words)

	CD Review of Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium on Thirsty Ear @ jazzreview.com
		The music that Matthew Shipp has assembled into one vibrant sweeping gesture is the balancing of sets of opposing forces.
		Shipp moves quickly into his signature 10 finger chordal climbs.
		Matthew Shipp exercises his own invaluable directness and honesty in pulling together repetitions upon repetitions of midrange chords juxtaposed to hammered out trills and scalar ascents and descents that function in ways that are totally surprising in this recording context.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=3923 (556 words)

	Amazon.com: Equilibrium: Music: Matthew Shipp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shipp's sound, which ingeniously blends Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, and McCoy Tyner, is elegantly anchored by Jamal's shimmering vibes.
		To my ears, shipp (at least on this album) has close to no rhythmic creativity, his improvised melodies are dececnt but unimaginative, and his playing seems too heavy-handed, so he can't seem to create much variety in his tone.
		Matthew Shipp has released one of his most fully realised albums with this album of experimenting Jazz, Nu-Jazz, Post-bop.
	www.amazon.com /Equilibrium-Matthew-Shipp/dp/B00007L7LX (2621 words)

	Nu Bop - Matthew Shipp - Music Reviews
		The band is comprised of Shipp on piano, William Parker on contrabass, Daniel Carter replacing David S. Ware on saxophone and flute, Guillermo Brown on drums, and FLAM on synths and programming.
		Shipp's methodology is one of shifting rhythmic hypnosis and modal inquiry along scaled intervals and striated harmonic pathways that lead through the middle registers of both the saxophone and the piano.
		Shipp has clearly outdone himself this time, and the Blue Series that he coordinates on Thirsty Ear continues to be one of the bravest and most exciting series of recordings in jazz today.
	www.mp3.com /albums/504341/reviews.html (853 words)

	Matthew Shipp & William Parker : Features : One Final Note
		Shipp can be deceptively melodic while exploring the far reaches of his piano, and that trait emerged immediately as he aggressively opened at a brisk pace with heavy concentration on the lower register.
		Shipp worked over a given grouping of notes to drain out every ounce of tonality from his piano while Parker worked himself into a trance with his resonant musings.
		Shipp moved into a motif of repeated dark phrases while Parker matched the mood with a sweeping arco solo using a four-note theme produced with long bowed lines.
	www.onefinalnote.com /features/2000/shipp-parker (543 words)

	Matthew Shipp: One: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ever the prudent iconoclast, pianist Matthew Shipp has used his past contributions to Thirsty Ear's ongoing Blue Series to cross-pollinate jazz with active electronic and DJ-cultures, adding innovators like Antipop Consortium and Chris Flam to his impressive register of collaborators.
		Unfortunately, Shipp's protracted sense of contentment can also work against him, as over the course of the album there are several instances when he lingers too long in his swirling, watercolored eddies.
		One is at its most effective when Shipp is at his most demanding, as on the dense tremors of "Electro Magnetism", where his furious, low-end tones threaten to shake the song loose from its floorboards.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/21676/Matthew_Shipp_One (486 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Matthew Shipp *
		Shipp’s concept of jazz as ambient soundscape is interesting and leads him and his bandmates — Khan Jamal on vibes, William Parker on bass, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Chris Flam on “synths and programming” — into some genuinely affecting musicmaking.
		Shipp dominates each of these tracks with a simple, serviceable piano vamp that becomes grating once the beats enter; the acoustic and electronic rhythms never seem to gel comfortably.
		The noir-ish simplicity of Shipp’s writing on these tunes suggests that he is attempting to create steadily flowing atmospheres, but the failure of the ensemble to achieve a deep pocket jostles the listener.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/639 (555 words)

	Ink 19 :: Matthew Shipp
		But maybe all of that praise, the magazine cover stories, the steady recording gigs are all emblematic of Shipp's please-everyone mentality.
		One look at Shipp's liner notes, and its pretty noticeable that the fawning press isn't even necessary.
		Shipp later refers to his music as "pure jazz ambient soundscape" and "beats and DJ culture meeting free jazz," which truly exemplifies the failures in his work, his cocky perception of himself as a master of genres.
	www.ink19.com /issues/march2003/musicReviews/musicS/matthewShipp.html (325 words)

	DJ SPOOKY that subliminal kid
		Shipp: What I like about some of his piano works is that he was so interested in density and his harmonic language is like a sheet of glass, it's almost like a layer that you hear in Balinese music sometimes, and his little pointallistic...
		Shipp: Hip hop to me seems to me to be so universal, and so basic, and I mean that in a good sense.
		Shipp: Sun Ra was always going into the depths of his spirit in order to go to the outer reaches of the universe.
	www.djspooky.com /articles/shipp.html (3451 words)

	Matthew Shipp Quartet - Pastoral Composure
		Matthew Shipp has risen over the past eight years to become the preeminent pianist in the New York "free" or "avant" jazz scene.
		Surprisingly, due in large part to the patronage of alternative-culture figurehead Henry Rollins, Shipp's audience began to grow not from within jazz circles, but from punk-rock crowds who seemed to find the energy in free jazz that was so lacking in the enervated "indie" rock scene of the early-to-mid-90s.
		Shipp has remained largely aloof from this, and without seeming to accept any challenge to rein himself in, has delivered a masterwork.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/Shipp.htm (674 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: Matthew Shipp
		Pianist Matthew Shipp answers this question with the debut album of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series.
		Shipp's Surprise - If you've heard Matthew Shipp's previous work (he's made nearly 20 albums as a leader), this one will surprise you.
		Shipp and Parker - Shipp explores the impetus behind his decade-long collaboration with bassist William Parker.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/matthewshipp.html (123 words)

	Matthew Shipp : One - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The 12 tracks that make up One, Matthew Shipp's first solo piano outing since 2002's Songs on the Splasc(h) label, amount to a new kind of recital for the pianist.
		Shipp puts down a series of chords following in scale, and then extrapolates on them, shading their colors more sharp or more flat, a little bit at a time, never trying to arrive at a destination until one speaks out loudly enough for more detail.
		But Shipp is very keen on balance in these pieces, too; there is the constant rise of tension and its gradual release once a path of inquiry is found and decided upon.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3518011,00.html (457 words)

	Amazon.com: Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Shipp: Music: Antipop Consortium,Matthew Shipp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Anyone who knows the music of Matthew Shipp; knows what a creative and talented Musician he truely is. Matthew has always been associated with "Free-Jazz" and the "Avant-Garde".
		Matthew Shipp is a great musician for these MCs to collaborate with.
		Shipp punches out a repetitive, eerie but catchy, pattern on the ivories while Priest creates a bassline out of crooked drops and squirts, eventually meshing into a beautiful harmony.
	www.amazon.com /Antipop-Consortium-vs-Matthew-Shipp/dp/B000089CJE (1568 words)

	Matthew Shipp : Equilibrium - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The hip-hoprisy that creates the rhythmic flow of "The Root" jumbles hip-hop and downtempo, elaborated on by Cleaver, whose painting of the insides of the beat is remarkable.
		Shipp offers chordal explorations on a marked set of changes and Jamal moves everything into overdrive as the turntables kick in.
		Shipp, whose restless vision is never clouded by grandiosity or pretense, has become the most important pianist on the scene today.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1767718,00.html (592 words)

	Sun Shipp: An Interview with Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp
		Pianist Matthew Shipp is one of the hottest items in the New York City jazz scene in these.
		On Pastoral Composure, Shipp returns to a traditional form of a quintet but the same passion is all over album.
		As the series curator, Shipp is looking to record many of the similar jazz musicians who comprise the New York City scene.
	members.tripod.com /vermontreview/Interviews/shipp.htm (2079 words)

	Matthew Shipp, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp worked and recorded vigorously during the 1990s, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine.
		He began playing piano at the young age of five, and decided to focus on jazz by the time he was 12.
		His first mentor was a man in his hometown named Sunyata, who had an enthusiasm for a variety of studies in addition to music.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11590/11590377.html (460 words)

	Matthew Shipp \| Harmony and Abyss
		Following up pianist Matthew Shipp's Equilibrium, a breakthrough record in a career of musical high points, was clearly a difficult challenge.
		And, to be sure, as revolutionary as Shipp's career has been and as much a shift in direction as Equilibrium was, his new disk, Harmony and Abyss is more of an evolutionary record, taking the concepts of Equilibrium that extra step further.
		FLAM's role in Shipp's recent efforts has been debated, but in the same way that David Torn, in the role of producer, has added an aural breadth to some of Tim Berne's recent work, so does FLAM expand upon what the musicians play, giving the whole affair a unique and cohesive vibe.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=14868 (504 words)

	Review - Matthew Shipp: Songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shipp may have reduced this one to atoms.
		At times the listening can be challenging, as it is during a rather long discordant segment of "Con Alma," but if Shipp was trying to build tension there he succeeded, because when he suddenly switched to a broad and tonally pleasant chord I felt my shoulders drop.
		One of many fascinating and somewhat intimidating things about Matthew Shipp is that he doesn't always let you off the hook.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-august02/reviews/review_matthew_shipp.html (302 words)

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