Matthew Shipp Trio at St. Andrew's & St. Luke's Episcopal Church

“It is listening to Matthew Shipp’s work that has always been a reminder to me that real Jazz music, no matter how refined or complex it can be, relies primarily on guts. Jazz, invariably, is a visceral and raw endeavor, often making Rock music seem soft in comparison. For the player and the listener, alike, it is a total experience. 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. It is always great to encounter such honesty in music. You know it when you hear it and it has a natural appeal but also carries a warning that you will have to deal with it on its terms. I don’t think Matthew has any other way of going about it.”...

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“It is listening to Matthew Shipp’s work that has always been a reminder to me that real Jazz music, no matter how refined or complex it can be, relies primarily on guts. Jazz, invariably, is a visceral and raw endeavor, often making Rock music seem soft in comparison. For the player and the listener, alike, it is a total experience. 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. It is always great to encounter such honesty in music. You know it when you hear it and it has a natural appeal but also carries a warning that you will have to deal with it on its terms. I don’t think Matthew has any other way of going about it.”

— Rock musician, writer and past producer of Matthew Shipp’s recordings Henry Rollins

“Watching Matthew Shipp play the piano is a bit like sitting ringside. Lefts and rights hit the keyboard's midsection in steady jabs, finding a rhythm that alternately lulls and stings. Or he might work his left hand, creating a rumbling dance of low-end notes. Then it comes: An unanticipated chiming cluster, landing like a roundhouse punch. At times, his playing turns meditative. Mr. Shipp's style knows no single pattern. Yet the boxing parallel is clear.”

— Larry Blumenfeld, Wall Street Journal

“It doesn't seem so long ago that pianist Matthew Shipp emerged as a fiery iconoclast of the piano, a fearless experimenter whose tempestuous soliloquies ranged freely among jazz, classical and avant-garde idioms. Though not for timid ears, Shipp's pianism sounds as galvanic as ever…Few pianists command a comparable improvisational imagination, nor the technical wherewithal to realize it.”

— Howard Reich, Boston Globe

“My tastes in piano run to five-fingered banging, my tastes in ambience to rhythm massage. I've admired several of Shipp's many albums…Remember "acid jazz"? This is what it wasn't tough enough for.”

— from Robert Christgau’s A- review for Matthew Shipp’s Harmonies and Abysses album, Village Voice

In a rare Hudson Valley appearance, the celebrated pianist and composer Matthew Shipp will present his trio — featuring the equally esteemed rhythm section of Michael Bisio on bass and Newman Taylor Baker on drums — in performance at St. Andrew’s Church, located at 17 South Ave. in Beacon, NY on December 3 at 8 PM. Tickets will be $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Advance tickets for this concert may be purchased at http://mst-in-beacon.bpt.me/ .

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