The Unidentifiable, by Matthew Shipp Trio

The Unidentifiable

by Matthew Shipp Trio

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1.	Blue Transport System 05:30	buy track
2.	Trance Frame 02:01	buy track
3.	Phantom Journey 05:31	buy track
4.	Dark Sea Negative Charge 06:11	buy track
5.	The Dimension 03:56	buy track
6.	Loop 03:39	buy track
7.	The Unidentifiable 07:10	buy track
8.	Virgin Psych Space 1 00:40	buy track
9.	Virgin Psych Space 2 04:53	buy track
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about

Starting in the bebop era, the piano-bass-drums lineup has been the most classic jazz format in which the piano is featured, accumulating the weight of history and critical expectations. In this setting, a non-mainstream player such as Shipp can infiltrate Newport Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and other Establishment bastions in a familiar format and then unleash his ideas on audiences that might not normally be exposed to his style. Thanks to hearing it in the communal language of the piano trio, they can better understand the message the Matthew Shipp Trio has to deliver – “Mr. Shipp’s predilection for finding fertile ground between accessibility and abstraction,” as Larry Blumenfeld wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Shipp says, "The piano trio is such a basic configuration in jazz, and it is an honor to take a well-explored area and apply my imagination to it to see where we can go—it helps that my trio mates are great." Shipp, Bisio, and Baker convened at Shipp's favorite recording venue last year looking to pursue a new direction. The result is both distinctively Shippian yet a further evolution of the group’s sound.

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released September 18, 2020

Matthew Shipp, piano
Michael Bisio, bass
Newman Taylor Baker, drums
Recorded October 10, 2019 at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, NY by Jim Clouse
Produced by Steve Holtje

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"Matthew Shipp has become an elder statesman in the jazz world. How that happened can be boiled down to two simple elements. One: he has created a unique sound and language for improvised music and two: Shipp has become a doyen of cutting edge music making and opinion." – Mark Corroto, All About Jazz ... more

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May 03

North Street Cabaret

Madison, WI

discography

World Construct

Jun 2022
The Unidentifiable

Sep 2020
Signature

Feb 2019
Zero

Mar 2018
Sonic Fiction

Feb 2018

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