Recording in the studio in NYC in 2023, pianist Matthew Shipp presents ten concise improvisations, forcefully powerful statements from energetic complexities to contemplatively inventive abstractions, at times explicitly referencing jazz tradition with an innate lyricism, at times bulldozing through tradition to create something uniquely Shipp.
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UPC: 195269241865
Label: Mahakala Music
Catalog ID: MAHA-061
Squidco Product Code: 33403
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Park West Studios, in NYC, on March 4th, 2023, by Jim Clouse.
"Visionary pianist Matthew Shipp refines his solo piano language to its purest essence on The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp. With this remarkable new solo album, the acclaimed pianist offers his most stunningly distilled statement to date, a compelling, intensely focused set of breathtaking improvisations that fastidiously refine ShippÕs prismatic language."-Mahakala Music
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• Show Bio for Matthew Shipp "Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly became one of the leading lights in the New York jazz scene. He was a sideman in the David S. Ware quartet and also for Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory before making the decision to concentrate on his own music. Mr Shipp has reached the holy grail of jazz in that he possesses a unique style on his instrument that is all of his own- and he's one of the few in jazz that can say so. Mr. Shipp has recorded a lot of albums with many labels but his 2 most enduring relationships have been with two labels. In the 1990s he recorded a number of chamber jazz cds with Hatology, a group of cds that charted a new course for jazz that, to this day, the jazz world has not realized. In the 2000s Mr Shipp has been curator and director of the label Thirsty Ear's "Blue Series" and has also recorded for them. In this collection of recordings he has generated a whole body of work that is visionary, far reaching and many faceted." ^ Hide Bio for Matthew Shipp
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Track Listing:
1. The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp 5:43
2. Crystal Structures 4:19
3. That Vibration 5:42
4. The 5:27
5. Jazz Emotions 5:45
6. The Essence 6:34
7. Jazz Frequency 7:36
8. Tune Into It 3:12
9. The Bulldozer Poetics 3:48
10. Essence of Silence 2:36
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