4D (album)

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4D
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Studio album by Matthew Shipp
Released 2010
Recorded May 17, 2009
Studio Roulette, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length59:56
Label Thirsty Ear
Producer Peter Gordon
Matthew Shipp chronology
Harmonic Disorder
(2009)		4D
(2010)		 SAMA
(2010)

4D is a solo album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2009 and released on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series.

Matthew Shipp American musician

Matthew Shipp is an American pianist, composer, and bandleader.

Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990.

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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "On 4D, Shipp nods to history with keen depth perception and articulates his new directions gracefully." [1]

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The All About Jazz review by John Sharpe notes that "Shipp features standards and popular songs alongside his own compositions, with some recognizable straight away but others treated so obliquely as to be unrecognizable." [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Matthew Shipp except as indicated
  1. "4D" – 4:18
  2. "The Crack in the Piano" – 5:06
  3. "Equilibrium" – 3:08
  4. "Teleportation" – 4:17
  5. "Dark Matter" – 2:35
  6. "Stairs" – 2:57
  7. "Jazz Paradox" – 4:49
  8. "Blue Web in Space" – 5:36
  9. "What Is This Thing Called Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:30
  10. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma / Jacques Prévert) – 2:46
  11. "Sequence and Vibration" – 8:00
  12. "Frère Jacques" (traditional) – 2:59
  13. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington) – 3:01
  14. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (Charles Converse) – 0:54
  15. "Primal Harmony" – 3:43
  16. "Greensleeves" (traditional) – 2:17

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Matthew Shipp – 4D: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sharpe, John. 4D review at All About Jazz
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