Matthew Shipp, Jazz Pianist: Table of Contents

Previews and Overviews:

2013 Nashville Scene preview: "I’ve seen a ton of shows since moving to Nashville 15 years ago, but pianist Matthew Shipp’s 2006 solo set at a church on Indiana Avenue still stands out as the most mind-blowing performance I’ve witnessed. It was an astonishing display, as if he had consumed the entirety of popular music, broken it down to its genetic code, then reassembled the DNA into a seemingly infinite number of mutations: familiar, delicate, unnerving, harmonically dense, nostalgic, atonal, pulsating, arrhythmic — and that was just the first 60 seconds."

http://www.nashvillescene.com/music/dont-miss-avant-jazz-legend-matthew-shipp-with-lambchop-saturday-at-vfw/article_c786ebae-b069-5b66-8534-43fb4e969398.html

MTV re: Pastoral Composure:

mtv.com/news/62bjhw/this-weeks-feature-jazz-pianist-matthew-shipp-emerges-from-retirement-again

Matthew Shipp: A Dozen Essential Albums by Karl Ackermann:

allaboutjazz.com/matthew-shipp-a-dozen-essential-albums

Matthew Shipp in 2003 by Phil Freeman:

burningambulance.com/2023/03/03/matthew-shipp-in-2003

Reviews:

Symbol Systems Review by Raul Da Gama: "This is clearly the creation of a major composer whose pianism also suggests great cohesion of form and function and, above all, lyricism that sets Mr Shipp apart in the same way that it did for musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor."

jazzdagama/com/music/matthew-shipp-symbol-systems

Review of The Uppercut Live at Okuden by Derk Richardson: “As Matthew Shipp’s catalog expands, so does our understanding of the depth and breadth of his genius. In more than 25 years of recording, the avant-garde pianist has explored as many settings as any player in jazz. His duo dates—with William Parker, Joe Morris, Michael Bisio, Rob Brown, Mat Maneri, Roscoe Mitchell, Sabir Mateen, Darius Jones, Evan Parker, and here, Polish reed player Walerian—are especially revealing. In this conversational format, Shipp’s attentiveness to his partner’s moves becomes more anticipatory than reactive, and Walerian’s alto sax, bass clarinet, soprano clarinet, and flute push Shipp in many directions, while adding an extraordinary range of colors and textures around the bright edginess and rich chords of the acoustic piano.”

theabsolutesound.com/articles/matthew-shipp-mat-walerian-duo-the-uppercut

Signature review by John Payne: "The rather prolific Matthew Shipp is the most relevant jazz pianist of the last few decades. A Matthew Shipp recording documents the many conceivable ways a human brain can work its magic. His brain’s capacity for surprise is his subject matter; it fascinates him, keeps him company on cold nights. While it’s obviously true that many of our most advanced musicians have mined the fertile ground that lies somewhere between their brains, hearts and limbs, it’s just that Shipp is especially geniuslike at it."

https://www.riotmaterial.com/matthew-shipp-trio-signature/

Piano Song Review by Jakob Baekgaard:

allaboutjazz.com/piano-song-matthew-shipp-thirsty-ear-recordings-review-by-jakob-baekgaard

Reviews of Zero, Accelerated Projector, Sonic Fiction, Magnetism(s) by Tom Burris:

freejazzblog.org/2018/07/four-from-matthew-shipp

Fruition review by Stuart Kremsky:

mrstusrecordroom.blogspot.com/2023/04/ivo-perelman-matthew-shipp-fruition.html

Reviews of Codebreaker, Village Mothership, and Procedural Language by Christian Carey:

www.sequenza21.com/2021/12/best-of-2021-three-recordings-featuring-matthew-shipp-cd-review

Two Reviews of Zero:

allaboutjazz.com/zero-matthew-shipp-esp-disk-review-by-mark-corroto

allmusic.com/album/zero-mw0003141127

Three Reviews of World Construct:

npr.org/sections/now-playing/2022/07/07/1110242926/matthew-shipp-trio-world-construct

jazztrail.net/blog/matthew-shipp-trio-world-construct-album-review

bigtakeover.com/recordings/MatthewShippTrioWorldConstructESPDisk

Reviews of Codebreaker, Village Mothership, Reels, Cool with That by Todd Manning:

rockandrollglobe.com/jazz/albums-four-from-shipp

Review of Zero by Doug Ramsey:

artsjournal.com/rifftides/2018/05/review-matthew-shipp-solo.html

Popmatters reviews of Piano Sutras and Piano Equation:

popmatters.com/175066-matthew-shipp-piano-sutras-2495727143.html

popmatters.com/matthew-shipp-piano-equation-2646006754

Two reviews of Codebreaker:

freejazzblog.org/2021/12/matthew-shipp-codebreaker-tao-forms-2021.html

somethingelsereviews.com/2021/11/10/matthew-shipp-codebreaker-2021

Equilibrium Review by Thom Jurek:

Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic

By the Law of Music Review by Steve Loewy:

allmusic.com/album/by-the-law-of-music-mw0000069606

Reviews of The Shape of Things, Garden of Jewels, Every Dog Has Its Day But It Doesn’t Matter Because Fat Cat Is Getting Fatter by Michael Ullman:

artsfuse.org/215541/jazz-album-reviews-matthew-shipp-a-splendidly-many-sided-pianist

Piano Song Review by Bill Meyer:

magnetmagazine.com/2017/03/11/essential-new-music-matthew-shipp-trios-piano-song

No Subject Review by Tim Niland:

Music and More: East Axis - No Subject (Mack Avenue Recordings, 2023) (jazzandblues.blogspot.com)

To Duke review by John Sharpe:

allaboutjazz.com/to-duke-matthew-shipp-rogue-art-review-by-john-sharpe

Review of Fruition by Lynn René Bayley:

artmusiclounge.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/one-more-from-perelman-shipp

Interviews:

2022 Interview on CapitolBop:

capitalbop.com/matthew-shipp-interview-dc-jazzfest