Darius Jones / Matthew Shipp at Guelph Jazz Festival

River Run Centre (Cooperators Hall)

New York pianist Matthew Shipp's playing is a brilliant synthesis of the entire jazz piano tradition, filtered through his unique musical personality. With enormous technical command, Shipp summons colourful clouds of sound through his dense, rhythmically charged chording, and has a knack for interweaving melodic material - the theme of a standard tune, for instance - compellingly into musical abstraction. Alto saxophonist Darius Jones has quickly established himself as a leading voice on his instrument, and plays with a sweeping power and quicksilver imagination...

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River Run Centre (Cooperators Hall)

New York pianist Matthew Shipp's playing is a brilliant synthesis of the entire jazz piano tradition, filtered through his unique musical personality. With enormous technical command, Shipp summons colourful clouds of sound through his dense, rhythmically charged chording, and has a knack for interweaving melodic material - the theme of a standard tune, for instance - compellingly into musical abstraction. Alto saxophonist Darius Jones has quickly established himself as a leading voice on his instrument, and plays with a sweeping power and quicksilver imagination. Together, Shipp and Jones make a rich, passionate music that is wholly rooted in jazz but which extends its possibilities in intriguing ways.

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