Matthew Shipp

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Matthew Shipp
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Matthew Shipp in 2005.
Background information
Born (1960-12-07) December 7, 1960 (age 64)
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Genres Free jazz, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, post bop
OccupationMusician
InstrumentPiano
Years active1987–present
Labels Thirsty Ear, FMP, No More, hatOLOGY, RogueArt, ESP-Disk, AUM Fidelity
Website matthewshippjazzpianist.blogspot.com
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Matthew Shipp,  Arts for Art - Vision Festival 2024. Photo by Marek Lazarski

Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware. [1] His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown. [4]

He began playing piano at five years old. [5] Shipp was strongly attracted to jazz, but also played in rock groups while in high school.

Shipp attended the University of Delaware for "a couple years" before dropping out. [6] He opted instead to live with his parents and focus on practicing, though he frequently traveled to Philadelphia to pick up gigs as a cocktail pianist and to study with Dennis Sandole, who Shipp has cited as playing an important role in his development. [6]

He later spent a year at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with saxophonist and composer Joe Maneri, but again dropped out without completing a degree. [6]

Career

Shipp moved to New York in 1984 and has been very active since the early 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a leader, sideman, or producer. [7] (Before making a living playing music, Shipp worked in a bookshop as an assistant manager. He was fired, he threw some books at his boss, and he decided he would not look for a day job anymore. [8] )

Matthew Shipp, Buffalo 2012 .Photo by Marek Lazarski Matthew Shipp in Buffalo 2012.jpg
Matthew Shipp, Buffalo 2012 .Photo by Marek Lazarski

He was initially most active in free jazz but has since branched out, particularly exploring music that touches on contemporary classical, hip hop, and electronica. [9] Earlier in his career Shipp was compared to some of his predecessors in the jazz piano pantheon, but has since been recognized as a complete stylistic innovator on the piano, with AllMusic referring to his "unique, instantly recognizable style", [10] and Larry Blumenfeld in Jazziz magazine referring to Shipp as "stunning in originality" and to his album 4D as "further proof of his idiosyncratic genius".

Shipp has also been celebrated by a wide range of artists: David Bowie has praised his work (specifically "Rocket Shipp" from the album Nu Bop), [11] and Thurston Moore, who first saw him perform in 1990, has complimented his cross-genre appeal: "I see the same people showing up for Matthew's gigs as for Merzbow". [1] (As a member of the David S. Ware Quartet, Shipp has opened for Sonic Youth.) [9] Shipp has also been noted for his association with punk-rock icon Henry Rollins, who released several of Shipp's records on his 213 imprint. [1] In 2010, Rollins wrote, "Matthew Shipp and his work have fascinated me since I first heard him many years ago. His originality and approach sometimes stretches the limits of what is considered Jazz music yet at the same time, describes perfectly the fierce freedom of it. ... Matthew is not only a brilliant Jazz pianist, he is a true artist and visionary." [12] In the early 1990s Shipp also befriended Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power), then his next-door neighbor. [6]

One of the first people Shipp sought out upon arriving in New York was William Parker, who he knew from his recordings with Cecil Taylor; Parker later recommended him for saxophonist David S. Ware's quartet, alongside Parker himself and a series of drummers (Marc Edwards, Susie Ibarra, Guillermo E. Brown, Whit Dickey). [6] As a member of Ware's quartet, Shipp recorded albums for Homestead ( Cryptology and DAO ), Thirsty Ear ( Threads , Live in the World , BalladWare ), AUM Fidelity (the label's first release, Wisdom of Uncertainty , as well as Corridors & Parallels , Freedom Suite , and Renunciation ), Silkheart ( Great Bliss, Vol. 1 Great Bliss, Vol. 2 , Oblations and Blessings ), Columbia ( Go See the World , Surrendered ), and DIW ( Flight of I , Third Ear Recitation , Earthquation , Godspelized ). [13]

In addition, the rhythm section of Shipp, Parker, and Brown recorded Ware compositions without Ware in 2003, released by Splasc(H) Records as The Trio Plays Ware , and Shipp and Ware performed as a duo, recorded in concert and released by AUM Fidelity as Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004 . [13] In 2001, Gary Giddens wrote for The Village Voice that "The David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today". [14] After Ware's death, Shipp wrote, "Some have compared our unit to the classic Coltrane quartet, but the members of our group all brought something to the table that only someone playing now could bring—resulting in a gestalt that is of its time and does not look back. When free jazz seemed like a spent force, he brought something new—and greatly beautiful—to it." [15]

Shipp was also a member of Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory, which Shipp said "could be seen as an extension of some post-Coltrane concepts, but in Roscoe's hands it is extended technique with multiple pulses", noting "[Mitchell's] insistence at all times of transcending cliché". [16]

Shipp has recorded or performed with many other musicians, including High Priest and Beans of Antipop Consortium, Michael Bisio, Daniel Carter, DJ Spooky, El-P, Mat Maneri, Joe Morris, Ivo Perelman, Mat Walerian, Allen Lowe, and Chad Fowler. He has also co-led the group East Axis, with bassist Kevin Ray, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonists Allen Lowe (first album) and Scott Robinson (second album).

The New York Times has noted Shipp's curatorial work for Thirsty Ear Records as "one of the label's chief consultants and most prolific artists". [17] Shipp's own releases on the label include 2011's double-disc album, entitled Art of the Improviser ; AllMusic called the work a "testament to Shipp's achievements, yet it is also a continuation of the discovery in his developmental musical language" [18] and the Chicago Tribune called the project "monumental" and "galvanic as ever". [19] Thirsty Ear also released Shipp's 2013 solo record Piano Sutras , which PopMatters described as "the kind of record we talk about and play for each other decades later ... music that frames up a whole history: of an artist, of listeners, of the artists who formed the history of the art form, of the culture and time that allowed this art to flourish". [20] This was followed by 2015's The Conduct of Jazz , the first album by Shipp's trio with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker.

Shipp's work with the France-based RogueArt imprint began with the 2006 album Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet by the group Declared Enemy (Sabir Mateen, Shipp, William Parker, and Gerald Cleaver). From 2006 to 2013, Shipp appeared on five albums released through RogueArt, one of which ( Un Piano ) billed Shipp as leader; from 2015 to 2022, the label put out six more albums with Shipp as leader, and another nine on which he was co-billed with, among others, Mark Helias, Nate Wooley, William Parker, Mat Maneri, John Butcher, and Evan Parker. [21] Shipp's work on RogueArt, along with biographical material and placement of Shipp's artistic evolution within the context of the downtown Manhattan avant-garde jazz scene, is the subject of music journalist Clifford Allen's 2023 book Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt; the Burning Ambulance review by Todd Manning declares that "Singularity Codex examines so many aspects of [Shipp's] life and the scene around him that it is not only indispensable to anyone trying to come to a deeper understanding of his work but also for those wanting to study the avant-garde jazz scene of New York City’s Lower East Side." [22]

Shipp began working with ESP-Disk with the Shipp/Mat Walerian duo album Live at Okuden , billed as The Uppercut. Issued in 2015, it was the last new release approved by ESP-Disk's founder Bernard Stollman. [23] All four of Walerian's albums with Shipp have been released on ESP-Disk’. Shipp's first ESP albums as leader were a quartet album, Sonic Fiction, and a solo album, Zer0, both issued in 2018. After that, he released several albums by his trio with Michael Bisio and Newman Taylor Baker: Signature, The Unidentifiable, World Construct, and New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz. [24] World Construct was called "a career-defining album" and awarded five stars by critic Mike Hobart in the Financial Times, [25] while New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz was called by Tony Dudley Evans (London Jazz Times) "an album of great beauty that is state of the art in terms of the possibilities of the jazz piano trio." [26] In 2022 a duo album by Shipp and Ivo Perelman, Fruition, was released by ESP, with NPR's Nate Chinen stating in his review, "The freeform alchemy between Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman and American pianist Matthew Shipp is by now a proven fact: rarely do two musicians achieve a higher flow state in real time." [27]

In 2020, longtime Shipp collaborator Whit Dickey started a label called Tao Forms; as of January 2023, the label had released two Shipp albums, The Piano Equation and Codebreaker, both solo releases, and four further albums on which he collaborates. [28] That same year, one of Shipp's most systematized statements, "Black Mystery School Pianists,"" was published on the website of NewMusicUSA. Five years later, when this essay found its way into print in the book Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings (a collection of Shipp's essays plus a transcribed lecture), Stewart Smith, reviewing the book in The Wire, called the titular essay “a thought-provoking counter-history to the official accounts of the jazz academy.” [29]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Release yearTitleLabelPersonnel/Notes
1988 Sonic Explorations Cadence JazzDuo with Rob Brown (alto sax)
1992 Points SilkheartQuartet with Rob Brown (alto sax), William Parker (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
1992 Circular Temple QuintonTrio with William Parker (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
1994 Zo RiseDuo with William Parker (bass)
1995 Critical Mass 2.13.61Quartet with Mat Maneri (violin), William Parker (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
1996 Symbol Systems No MoreSolo piano
1996 Prism BrinkmanTrio with William Parker (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
1996 2-Z 2.13.61Duo with Roscoe Mitchell (saxophones)
1997 The Flow of X 2.13.61Quartet with Mat Maneri (violin), William Parker (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
1997 Before the World FMPSolo piano
1997 By the Law of Music hatHUTString Trio with Mat Maneri (violin), William Parker (bass)
1997 Thesis hatOLOGYDuo with Joe Morris (guitar)
1998 The Multiplication Table hatOLOGYTrio with William Parker (bass), Susie Ibarra (drums)
1998 Strata hatOLOGYQuartet with Roy Campbell (trumpet), Daniel Carter (saxophones, flute, trumpet), William Parker (bass)
1999 DNA Thirsty EarDuo with William Parker (bass)
1999 Magnetism Bleu RegardSolo, duo and trio performances with Rob Brown (alto sax, flute), William Parker (bass)
2000 Gravitational Systems hatOLOGYDuo with Mat Maneri (violin)
2000 Pastoral Composure Thirsty EarQuartet with Roy Campbell (trumpet), William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)
2001 Expansion, Power, Release hatOLOGYString Trio with Mat Maneri (violin), William Parker (bass)
2001 New Orbit Thirsty EarQuartet with Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)
2002 Songs Splasc(h)Solo piano
2002Nu BopThirsty EarWith William Parker (bass), Guillermo E. Brown (drums), Daniel Carter (sax, flute), FLAM (synths, programming)
2003 Equilibrium Thirsty EarWith William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Khan Jamal (vibes), FLAM (synths, programming)
2003 Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp Thirsty Ear
2003The GoodandEvil SessionsThirsty EarWith Roy Campbell (trumpet), Alex Lodico, Josh Roseman (trombone), Miso (turntables), William Parker (bass), Danny Blume (drums, guitar, programming), Chris Kelly (drums, programming)
2003The Sorcerer SessionsThirsty EarWith Evan Ziporyn (clarinets), William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums), FLAM (synths, programming), Daniel Bernard Roumain (violin)
2004 The Trio Plays Ware Splasc(h)Trio with William Parker (bass), Guillermo E. Brown (drums)
2004Harmony and AbyssThirsty EarWith William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums), FLAM (synths, drums programming)
2005 In Finland Cadence JazzTrio with Joe McPhee (soprano sax, trumpet), Dominic Duval (bass)
2005 One Thirsty EarSolo piano
2006Phenomena of InterferenceHopscotchWith Steve Dalachinsky
2006 Salute to 100001 Stars – A Tribute to Jean Genet RogueArt As the band Declared Enemy; with Sabir Mateen (alto sax, flute, clarinet), William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Denis Lavant (spoken words)
2007 Piano Vortex Thirsty EarTrio with Joe Morris (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2007Abbey Road DuosTreaderDuo with Evan Parker (tenor sax, soprano sax)
2008 Right Hemisphere RogueArtAs the band Right Hemisphere; quartet with Rob Brown (alto sax), Joe Morris (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2008 Un Piano RogueArtSolo piano
2008 Cosmic Suite Not TwoQuartet with Daniel Carter (reeds), Joe Morris (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2009 Harmonic Disorder Thirsty EarTrio with Joe Morris (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2010 4D Thirsty EarSolo piano
2010 SAMA Not TwoDuo with Sabir Mateen (reeds)
2010Creation Out of Nothing (Live in Moscow)SoLydSolo piano
2011 Night Logic RogueArtTrio with Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, EVI), Joe Morris (bass)
2011 Art of the Improviser Thirsty EarSolo piano and trio with Michael Bisio (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2011SaMa Live in MoscowSoLydDuo with Sabir Mateen (saxophone)
2011 Cosmic Lieder AUM FidelityDuo with Darius Jones (alto sax)
2011Broken PartialsNot TwoDuo with Joe Morris (bass)
2012 Elastic Aspects Thirsty EarTrio with Michael Bisio (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2012 Floating Ice Relative Pitch Duo with Michael Bisio (bass)
2013 Rex, Wrecks & XXX RogueArtDuo with Evan Parker (tenor sax)
2013 Piano Sutras Thirsty EarSolo piano
2014 Root of Things Relative PitchTrio with Michael Bisio (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2014 The Darkseid Recital AUM FidelityDuo with Darius Jones (alto sax)
2014 I've Been to Many Places Thirsty EarSolo piano
2015 To Duke RogueArtTrio with Michael Bisio (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2015 Live at Okuden ESP-DiskAs the band The Uppercut; with Mat Walerian (reeds)
2015 The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael Relative PitchChamber Ensemble; trio with Mat Maneri (viola), Michael Bisio (bass)
2015 Our Lady of the Flowers RogueArtAs the band Declared Enemy; quartet with Sabir Mateen (tenor sax, clarinet), William Parker (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)
2015 The Conduct of Jazz Thirsty EarTrio with Michael Bisio (bass), Newman Taylor Baker (drums)
2016Live in SeattleArena Music PromotionDuo with Michael Bisio (bass)
2016 Live at Okuden ESP-DiskAs the band Jungle; with Mat Walerian (reeds), Hamid Drake (drums)
2016 Cactus Northern SpyDuo with Bobby Kapp (drums)
2017 Piano Song Thirsty EarTrio with Michael Bisio (bass), Newman Taylor Baker (drums)
2017Invisible Touch At Taktlos ZürichhatOLOGYSolo piano
2017This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful PeopleESP-DiskAs the band Toxic; with Mat Walerian (reeds), William Parker (bass, shakuhachi)
2017Not BoundFortuneQuartet with Daniel Carter (reeds), Michael Bisio (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2018Accelerated ProjectionRogueArtDuo with Roscoe Mitchell (tenor & soprano sax, flute)
2018ZeroESP-DiskSolo piano
2018Sonic FictionESP-DiskQuartet with Mat Walerian (reeds), Michael Bisio (bass), Whit Dickey (drums)
2019SignatureESP-DiskTrio with Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker
2020The UnidentifiableESP-DiskTrio with Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker
2020The Piano EquationTAO FormsSolo piano
2020The RewardRogueArtSolo piano
2021CodebreakerTAO FormsSolo piano
2021Cool With ThatESP-DiskAs East Axis; with Gerald Cleaver, Kevin Ray, Allen Lowe
2021Village MothershipTAO FormsTrio with Whit Dickey, William Parker
2022World ConstructESP-DiskTrio with Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker
2023No SubjectMack Avenue- Brother MisterAs East Axis; with Gerald Cleaver, Kevin Ray, Scott Robinson
2024New Concepts in Piano Trio JazzESP-DiskTrio with Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker

As sideman

Release yearLeaderTitleLabel
1991 David S. Ware Great Bliss, Vol. 1 Silkheart
1991David S. Ware Great Bliss, Vol. 2 Silkheart
1992David S. Ware Flight of I DIW/Columbia
1993David S. Ware Third Ear Recitation DIW
1994David S. Ware Earthquation DIW
1995David S. Ware Cryptology Homestead
1996David S. Ware Oblations and Blessings Silkheart
1996David S. Ware DAO Homestead
1996David S. Ware Godspelized DIW
1997David S. Ware Wisdom of Uncertainty AUM Fidelity
1998David S. Ware Go See the World Columbia
2000David S. Ware Surrendered Columbia
2001David S. Ware Corridors & Parallels AUM Fidelity
2002David S. Ware Freedom Suite AUM Fidelity
2003David S. Ware Threads Thirsty Ear
2005David S. Ware Live in the World Thirsty Ear
2006David S. Ware BalladWare Thirsty Ear
2007David S. Ware Renunciation AUM Fidelity
2009David S. Ware Live in Vilnius NoBusiness
2016David S. Ware Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004 AUM Fidelity
1997 Rob Brown Blink of an Eye No More
1998 Mat Maneri So What?hatOLOGY
2001 Whit Dickey Life Cycle AUM Fidelity
2017Whit Dickey Vessel in Orbit AUM Fidelity
2004 El-P High Water Thirsty Ear
1992 Roscoe Mitchell This Dance Is for Steve McCall Black Saint
1999Roscoe Mitchell Nine to Get Ready ECM
2003Roscoe Mitchell The Bad Guys Around Jazz
2014 Jemeel Moondoc The Zookeeper's House Relative Pitch
2018Jemeel Moondoc The Astral Revelations RogueArt
1996 Joe Morris Elsewhere Homestead
2000 Other Dimensions In Music Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time Homestead
1996 Ivo Perelman Cama de Terra Homestead
1997Ivo Perelman Bendito of Santa Cruz Cadence Jazz
1999Ivo PerelmanBrazilian WatercolourLeo
2011Ivo PerelmanThe Hour of the StarLeo
2012Ivo PerelmanThe Foreign LegionLeo
2012Ivo PerelmanThe ClairvoyantLeo
2012Ivo PerelmanThe GiftLeo
2013Ivo PerelmanThe EdgeLeo
2013Ivo PerelmanThe Art of the Duet, Volume OneLeo
2013Ivo PerelmanEnigmaLeo
2013Ivo PerelmanSerendipityLeo
2013Ivo PerelmanA Violent Dose of AnythingLeo
2014Ivo PerelmanBook of SoundLeo
2014Ivo PerelmanThe Other EdgeLeo
2015Ivo PerelmanCallasLeo
2015Ivo PerelmanButterfly WhispersLeo
2015Ivo PerelmanComplementary ColorsLeo
2016Ivo PerelmanSoulLeo
2016Ivo PerelmanCorpoLeo
2016Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of The Improv Trio Volume 3Leo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 1: TitanLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 2: TarvosLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 3: PandoraLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 4: HyperionLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 5: RheaLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 6: SaturnLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanThe Art Of Perelman-Shipp Volume 7: DioneLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanLive in BrusselsLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanLive in BaltimoreLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanHeptagonLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanScaleneLeo
2017Ivo PerelmanPhilosopher's StoneLeo
2018Ivo PerelmanOnenessLeo
2022Ivo PerelmanFruitionESP-Disk

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