Root of Things
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| Studio album by Matthew Shipp | ||||
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| Label (s) | Relative pitch records | |||
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CD |
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6th |
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43:41 |
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Mike Panico , Kevin Reilly |
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Park West Studios, Brooklyn |
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Root of Things is a jazz album by the Matthew Shipp Trio with Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey . The recordings, made on September 7, 2013 in Park West Studios, Brooklyn, were released in 2014 on Relative Pitch Records . ,
background
Matthew Shipps trio recording Root of Things was made with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey. Shipp had worked with Dickey back in 1990 - on Circular Temple (Infinite Zero, 1992) and Prism (Brinkman, 1993). The previous releases of this trio with Bisio were a live recording ( Art of the Improviser , Thirsty Ear, 2011) and a studio session ( Elastic Aspects , also released by Thirsty Ear 2012). This trio also brought the saxophonist Ivo Perelman to work on his album The Edge ( Leo Records , 2013).
Track list
- Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things (Relative Pitch Records RPR1022)
- Root of Things 6:32
- Jazz It 9:38
- Code J 4:04
- Path 9:45
- Pulse Code 4:11
- Solid Circut 9:31
reception
According to Mark Corroto, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , what once sounded complicated and indecipherable is revealed by delving into its depths, just as listening to the music of Thelonious Monk did before . Shipp's compositions would find sympathetic treatment by this trio.
Also in All About Jazz , John Sharpe wrote that with the six tracks on the studio album, this trio reaffirmed its reputation as one of the leading contemporary piano trios, combining Shipp's unique idiom with haunting themes, darkly thundering voices and crystalline romantic lyricism, in a very coherent and convincing manner . In Bisio, Matthew Shipp found the perfect counterpart. Whit Dickey, on the other hand, adds layers of detail to the musical events, even if he acts comparatively inconspicuously, which are only appreciated after repeated listening. By not excluding any option, his diverse rhythms matched the band leader's preference for abruptly changing into the time game, out of time or between tempos.
In The Absolute Sound , Derk Richardson suggested that Root of Things could be experienced as a series of maps that led one into, through and out of the trio's individual and collective ideas. Like maps on a computer or smartphone, you can zoom in and rethink the details - the intersections, the hairpins, the underbrush - or step back and appreciate the grander, flowing shapes of the terrain. In both cases, the music is a landscape that you may never want to leave.
Bill Meyer wrote in Dusted that on Root of Things there was a moment in the second track, “Jazz It”, when the trio really sounded like an instrument. “The roar of Matthew Shipp's piano keys, Michael Bisio's high double bass notes and Whit Dickey's hissing hi-hat and snare accents combine to create a perfectly balanced action - you don't hear the instrumental elements, you experience a unified tonal unity that emerges from their collective Interaction arises. ”The moment of this merging also crystallizes out another aspect, wrote Meyer - the Ellingtonian idea of the composer“ who plays the band ”refers to how he assigns tasks to make the music, not to how how the music sounds. Given that it occurs during one of the improvised passages of the piece, it may not have been something Shipp wanted, the writer said, “But that doesn't make it any less valid or powerful. Indeed, this event illustrates the album record's intent to portray the root of things addressed in its title . "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mark Corroto: Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things. All About Jazz, September 24, 2014, accessed August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things at Discogs
- ^ John Sharpe: Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things. All About Jazz, April 26, 2014, accessed August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Derk Richardson: Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things. The Absolute Sound, September 24, 2014, accessed August 17, 2020 .
- ^ Bill Meyer: Matthew Shipp Trio: Root of Things. Dusted, October 20, 2014, accessed August 17, 2020 .