Matthew Shipp Trio at First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh

Saturday April 14

The Consortium presents an evening with free-jazz giants
MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO
Matthew Shipp – piano; Michael Bisio – bass; Whit Dickey – percussion

http://www.matthewshipp.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shipp

Tickets on sale now at Sound Cat (née Paul’s CDs), Dave’s Music Mine,
Caliban Books, The Exchange Squirrel Hill, The Exchange Downtown,
and Garfield Artworks.

With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has worked and recorded vigorously from the late ’80s onward, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine. He first became well known in the early ’90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and soon began leading his own dates — most often including Ware bandmate and leading bassist William Parker — and recording a number of duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell to violinist Mat Maneri, the latter another musician who began making a name for himself in the 1990s. Through his range of live and recorded performances and unswerving individual development, Shipp has come to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music into the new millennium....

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Saturday April 14

The Consortium presents an evening with free-jazz giants
MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO
Matthew Shipp – piano; Michael Bisio – bass; Whit Dickey – percussion

http://www.matthewshipp.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shipp

Tickets on sale now at Sound Cat (née Paul’s CDs), Dave’s Music Mine,
Caliban Books, The Exchange Squirrel Hill, The Exchange Downtown,
and Garfield Artworks.

With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has worked and recorded vigorously from the late ’80s onward, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine. He first became well known in the early ’90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and soon began leading his own dates — most often including Ware bandmate and leading bassist William Parker — and recording a number of duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell to violinist Mat Maneri, the latter another musician who began making a name for himself in the 1990s. Through his range of live and recorded performances and unswerving individual development, Shipp has come to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music into the new millennium.

“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.
Shipp recently turned 50, and to mark the occasion he has released a monumental double-CD, “Art of the Improviser” (Thirsty Ear). Though not for timid ears, Shipp’s pianism sounds as galvanic as ever, but especially on the second CD, which documents a live solo piano recital. Few pianists command a comparable improvisational imagination, nor the technical wherewithal to realize it. Shipp sounds similarly dynamic in the live trio recording of the first CD, which – with the exception of an overly long bass solo early in the recording – flies like the wind. Ultimately, “The Art of the Improviser” not only sums up Shipp’s achievements to date but points promisingly toward important music yet to come.” – Chicago Tribune

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