5:00 PM Doors, 7:30 PM Show - Set 1
Matthew Shipp - Piano
Michael Bisio - Bass
Newman Taylor Baker - Drums
Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Shipp moved to New York in 1984 and has been very active since the early 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a leader, sideman, or producer. He was initially most active in
free jazz but has since branched out, particularly exploring music that touches on
contemporary classical,
hip hop, and
electronica.
[9] Earlier in his career Shipp was compared to some of his predecessors in the jazz piano pantheon, but has since been recognized as a complete stylistic innovator on the piano, with
AllMusic referring to his "unique, instantly recognizable style",
[10] and Larry Blumenfeld in
Jazziz magazine referring to Shipp as "stunning in originality" and to his album
4D as "further proof of his idiosyncratic genius."