Matthew Shipp has proven himself one of the more adept barrier vaulters in modern jazz. He's played unabashedly "out" dates, explored more straightforward hard bop and, most recently, managed to hitch ...

In a broad-themed 2023 interview with All About Jazz, Matthew Shipp described The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp as his "grand statement for who I am now." With this solo release, we have a time-stamp in ...

(Matthew) Shipp is one of the select group of current players and composers one would have to tag essential. 1 (He) boosts one of the most prolific, consistent and challenging catalogs—the pianist’s ...

To borrow a line from Mark Twain, the reports of Matthew Shipp's retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Some years back, the pianist announced his retirement from recording, only to make a comeback ...

Vs. has a most interesting aim: a direct collision between hip-hoppers Antipop Consortium and free jazzer Matthew Shipp. We've seen beats applied to jazz records, various forms of studio manipulation, ...

Henry Rollins has been a fiery tongued advocate for independent music and creative culture since he was the frontman of seminal hardcore band Black Flag in the early 1980s. He has since released ...

In the near future there will be debates as to which was the finest trio lineup Matthew Shipp put together. Some will favor bassist William Parker whose history with the pianist dates back to their ...

On May 17, 2009, at 6 pm, Matthew Shipp walked through the front door of Roulette, a performance venue on the Lower East Side in New York City, for a recording session for his sixth solo album, 4D - ...

The post Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000’s New Piano Project: “Complete and Utter Crap” appeared first on Consequence. Following its surprise release at the 2025 Met Gala last week, ...

Polish multi-instrumentalist Mat Walerian is on the verge of reserving his seat in the pantheon of groundbreaking hornmen who recorded for the late Bernard Stollman's storied ESP-Disk' label. Not as ...

Matthew Shipp is a student of music, life and the constructs of the music business. He takes a deep dive into the marketplace with a fierce analysis of major, minor and truly microscopic movements.

When Matthew Shipp was a teenager, he had a job as a cocktail pianist. His motivation was to sound "like any old jazz pianist." He did "what any other jazz pianist would do, that is, study everything ...