James Shipp

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James Shipp (born January 1, 1980 in Columbia , Maryland ) is an American jazz musician ( vibraphone , marimba , drums , composition , arrangement ).

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Shipp moved to New York to study music, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the State University of New York's Purchase Conservatory of Music . In New York he worked with Ray Vega in several combos interpreting Caribbean jazz from 2002 to 2005 . In 2006, Vega and the opera singer Sharon Spinetti created an album with music by Debussy , Lara and Villa-Lobos , which James arranged for a jazz quartet. In 2005 he started working with Jo Lawry and with Fred Hersch's 'Pocket Orchestra'; in the same year he founded his project Nós Novo , which presented his debut album Strange Sweethearts in America in 2009 with his own compositions. In 2008 he was also involved as arranger and percussionist on Kate McGarry's album If Less is More, Nothing is Everything ( Palmetto Records ), which received a Grammy nomination for best album of jazz vocals.

Shipp is also with musicians such as Paquito D'Rivera , Snarky Puppy , Bokanté , Bob Lanzetti, the Kronos Quartet and Dr. Entered Lonnie Smith . Since 2012 he has worked in a duo with the trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis ; In 2017 they released their first album Indigo . He is currently working with Jean Rohe & The End of the World Show, Banda Magda, the Nadje Noordhuis Quintet and Christina Courtin . In the tentet of clarinetist Anat Cohen , he was involved in her albums Happy Days and Triple Helix (the latter was Grammy nominated in 2019).

Shipp is also a member of the MakeSpeak Ensemble , a trio led by Haggai Cohen-Milo that composes and performs music for dance and theater. His music for Jephta's Daughter by Saar Magal was premiered in 2015 at the Munich State Opera, in autumn 2018 MakeSpeak composed and interpreted the music for Magal's A Monteverdi Project at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden .

For a decade he's bandleader, composer, producer and workshop presenter at the Social Impact Program of the Carnegie Hall active and operates different with people aged in prisons, hospitals, housing and schools throughout New York City. He is currently the head of the Future Music Project Ensemble there . Shipp has been playing his mostly satirical songs since 2016; his single "P (ot) POTUS: The Penis of the President of the United States" caused a stir. He can also be heard on albums by Miho Hazama , Kurt Elling and The Awakening Orchestra .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ↑ The whole thing is a mystery
  3. ↑ Jephta's Daughter (Bandcamp)
personal data
SURNAME Shipp, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (mallets, drums, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia , Maryland