Thesis (Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris album)

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Thesis
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Studio album by
Released1997
RecordedJanuary 23, 1997
StudioSeltzer Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length63:27
Label hatOLOGY
Producer Art Lange, Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger
Matthew Shipp chronology
By the Law of Music
(1997)
Thesis
(1997)
The Multiplication Table
(1998)

Thesis is an album by the American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, featuring a duo with guitarist Joe Morris, recorded in 1997 and released on the Swiss hatOLOGY label. Shipp played previously with the Joe Morris Ensemble on the album Elsewhere , but Thesis represents their first collaboration with Shipp as a leader.

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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states: "What exists between them is a fiery lyricism replete with staggering arpeggios, colorful digressions of dualistic chromaticism combined with the stagger-and-lurch method of self-discovery in the midst of heated contrapuntal improvisation." [1]

In an article for the Boston Phoenix , Ed Hazell wrote that "the pair seem guided not by conscious design but by more mysterious and powerful forces. Which isn't to say there's not a high level of conscious artistry present in this darkly beautiful, even majestic, album." [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Matthew Shipp
  1. "Thesis" – 4:08
  2. "Fable" – 5:39
  3. "Simple Relations" – 3:41
  4. "Particle 1" – 3:43
  5. "The Wand" – 3:49
  6. "Action and Reaction" – 5:22
  7. "Center Of" – 5:33
  8. "The Turnpike" – 5:35
  9. "Form of Y" – 4:22
  10. "Broader Orders" – 8:01
  11. "Particle 2" – 4:41
  12. "The Middle Region" – 4:18
  13. "Our Journey" – 4:35

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Matthew Shipp – Thesis: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1293. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . The Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Fireside. pp.  732. ISBN   0743201698.
  4. Joe Morris gets around by Ed Hazell at Boston Phoenix