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Matthew Shipp

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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.


— Matthew Shipp


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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?


— Matthew Shipp


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I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.


— Matthew Shipp


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I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.


— Matthew Shipp


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People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.


— Matthew Shipp


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The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.


— Matthew Shipp


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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.


— Matthew Shipp


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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.


— Matthew Shipp


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Shipp has been very active since the early 1990s appearing on dozens of albums as a leader sideman or producer. Jazziz also referred to Shipp's cd 4D as further proof of his idiosyncratic genius. Matthew Shipp (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2003)
The GoodandEvil Sessions (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2003) with Roy Campbell Alex Lodico Miso William Parker Josh Roseman
The Sorcerer Sessions (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2003) with Gerald Cleaver and William Parker
High Water (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2004) Blue Series Continuum and El-P
The Trio Plays Ware (Splasc(h) 2004)
Harmony and Abyss (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2004) with Gerald Cleaver and William Parker
Phenomena of Interference (Hopscotch 2006) with Steve Dalachinsky
Salute to 100001 Stars - A Tribute to Jean Genet (RogueArt 2006) with Declared Enemy
Piano Vortex (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2007) with Joe Morris and Whit Dickey
Right Hemisphere (RogueArt 2008) with Rob Brown Joe Morris and Whit Dickey
Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2009) with Joe Morris and Whit Dickey
Night Logic (RogueArt 2011) Trio with Marshall Allen and Joe Morris
Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 2011) with William Parker and Whit Dickey
SaMa Live in Moscow (SoLyd 2011) Duo with Sabir Mateen
Cosmic Lieder (AUM 2011) Duo with Darius Jones


As sideman
With Roscoe Mitchell
Nine to Get Ready (ECM 1997)


Bibliography
Logos And Language: A Post-Jazz Metaphorical Dialogue (RogueArt 2008) with Steve Dalachinsky.

Matthew Shipp (born December 7 1960) is an American pianist composer and bandleader.

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