By the Law of Music

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By the Law of Music
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Studio album by Matthew Shipp
Released 1997
Recorded August 5, 1996
Studio Seltzer Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length60:46
Label HatART
Producer Art Lange
Matthew Shipp chronology
Before the World
(1997)		By the Law of Music
(1997)		 Thesis
(1997)

By the Law of Music is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp which was recorded in 1996 and released on the Swiss HatART label. It was re-released on the hatOLOGY imprint in 2002.

Matthew Shipp American musician

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

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Huthut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.

Contents

The record marks the debut of his String Trio with violinist Mat Maneri and bassist William Parker. On all other previous recordings Maneri played electric violin, but in this session used exclusively acoustic violin. The album was conceived as a twelve-part suite, but Shipp decided to record Duke Ellington's "Solitude" as a final touch after the suite. [1]

Mat Maneri American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player

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William Parker (musician) American jazz musician

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Duke Ellington American jazz musician, composer and band leader

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years.

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In his review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy states "As with almost any artistic invention, the music can be heard on a variety of levels: as chamber jazz, it has a beauty that rewards even the casual listener, while the sophisticated interrelationships give it a great depth and even charm." [2] The JazzTimes review by Josef Woodard says that "The album closes disarmingly, with an anarchic reading of Duke Ellington's 'Solitude', in which the pianist lays down the recognizable form of the tune, while the others dance in atonal abandon." [3]

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JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin (1928–2018) as a newsletter called Radio Free Jazz. Sabine founded Radio Free Jazz to complement his Washington, D.C. record store that he founded in 1962. As a newsletter, it informed consumers of the latest jazz releases and provided jazz broadcasters with news and backstories related to playlists.

Track listing

All compositions by Matthew Shipp except as indicated
  1. "Signal" – 0:17
  2. "By the Law of Music" – 2:51
  3. "Implicit" – 6:58
  4. "Fair Play" – 5:00
  5. "Grid" – 6:45
  6. "Whole Movement" – 3:05
  7. "Game of Control" – 7:56
  8. "Point to Point" – 4:21
  9. "P X" – 3:28
  10. "Grid" – 5:36
  11. "Coo" – 5:05
  12. "X Z U" – 4:31
  13. "Solitude" (Duke Ellington) – 4:53

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Violin bowed string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths

The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Original Liner Notes by Ben Ratliff
  2. 1 2 Loewy, Steve. Matthew Shipp – By the Law of Music: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ By the Law of Music review by Josef Woodard at JazzTimes
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