One (Matthew Shipp album)

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One
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Studio album by
Released2005
RecordedAugust 18, 2005
StudioLeon Lee Dorsey Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length40:33
Label Thirsty Ear
Producer Matthew Shipp, Peter Gordon
Matthew Shipp chronology
In Finland
(2004)
One
(2005)
Phenomena of Interference
(2006)

One is a solo album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2005 and released on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series.

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Reception

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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "One is a fully realized and poetic work by a mature pianist who should finally begin getting his due, not only as an improviser and a visionary but as a technician as well." [1]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "he delves into the worlds of Cecil Taylor, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, but without ever once referencing any of these ancestral presences directly." [2]

The All About Jazz review by Nic Jones claims "If indeed it is the case that the solo piano recital is fraught with potential hazards, then Shipp manages to avoid them through the simple expedient of writing his own rulebook." [3]

The Pitchfork review by Matthew Murphy states "With their compact, elegant architecture and measured elocution, One's 12 songs often resemble the early 20th century piano studies of Ravel or Debussy as closely as they do modern jazz." [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Matthew Shipp.

  1. "Arc" – 3:08
  2. "Patmos" – 3:38
  3. "Gamma Ray" – 4:27
  4. "Milky Way" – 3:25
  5. "Blue in Orion" – 3:32
  6. "Electro Magnetism" – 2:43
  7. "The Encounter" – 4:05
  8. "The Rose Is a Rose" – 2:08
  9. "IEOU" – 3:21
  10. "Abyss Code" – 2:30
  11. "Zero" – 3:23
  12. "Module" – 4:13

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Matthew Shipp – One: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1294. ISBN   0141034017.
  3. Jones, Nic. One review at All About Jazz
  4. Murphy, Matthew. One review at Pitchfork