Signature (album)
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| Studio album by Matthew Shipp | ||||
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CD |
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10 |
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1:02:41 |
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Steve Holtje |
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Park West Studios, Brooklyn, New York City |
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Signature is a jazz album by Matthew Shipp Trios with Michael Bisio and Newman Taylor Baker . The recordings, taken on July 9, 2018 at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, were released on February 15, 2019 on ESP disc .
background
In the period 2017/18 the pianist Matthew Shipp appeared in various small formations, with whom he also recorded several albums. He often worked with woodwind players such as Allen Lowe , Mat Walerian , Daniel Carter , Roscoe Mitchell and played on a dozen albums with Ivo Perelman . He also worked in solo piano and trio environments; Signature recorded Matthew Shipp with longtime associates Michael Bisio and Newman Taylor Baker; In previous years, the pianist had recorded the albums The Conduct of Jazz and Piano Song (Thirsty Ear) with them .
Track list
- Matthew Shipp Trio: Signature (ESP-Disk ESP5029)
- Signature 6:45
- Deep to Deep 0:49
- Flying Saucer 6:29
- Snap 2:06
- The Way 10:21
- Stage Ten 5:18
- Speech of Form 4:27
- Zo # 2 6:15
- New Z 3:46
- The Matrix 16:25
All compositions are by Matthew Shipp.
reception
In the opinion of Karl Ackermann, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , Shipp's career has played out in waves since the David S. Ware era and reached new heights without ever ending up in the valley. Signature is one of his albums that attaches itself more strongly to every listen.
John Garratt wrote in Pop Matters that Signature is another trio album in which you can experience Shipp with Bisio and Tylor Baker taking the jazz piano trio concept to unfathomable heights. Anyone who believed that the jazz piano trio format had already peaked with the Bill Evans trio could die of shock listening to Signature . This album is the sound of jazz that continues along the progressive arc it received decades ago, Garratt said.
Mike Borella said in his review on Avant Music News that Matthew Shipp respects the jazz tradition , but feels in no way bound by it. Despite some walking bass lines and appealing microtunes, it would be imprecise to say that any of these ten tracks really swing . Shipp's restless and intellectual approach to the piano does not allow him to rely on the same melodic structures for long, while Bisio and Baker acted as a freely improvised accompanying group. The title track at the beginning of the album is an example of Shipp's thoughtful exploration of style; Well thought-out motifs from jazz and classical music mixed and matched his catchy but unconventional playing. Baker is unusually busy with this setting, while Bisio's bass work encompasses both sonorous panoramas and explorations that deviate from Shipp and then return to him. Perhaps the most aggressive piece is “Flying Saucer”, “a rapid fire exercise at a disjoint pace with an energy level that is in overdrive. Bisio and Baker deliver their own iconoclastic aberrations that make the sum of the parts sound like all three players are doing their own thing. And yet these complex units somehow fit together. ”In contrast, the author considers“ Stage Ten ”to be the most straightforward track in the series; it even approaches a groove , but also contains subtle percussive abstractions by Shipp and more than a few broken notes. Signature is a high point for Shipp in a career that consists of a remarkable number of high points, sums up Borella. There is an unusual amount and abundance of content here that comes from this iteration of Shipps Trio.
According to S. Victor Aaron, who wrote the album in Something Else! As discussed, the three musicians hit the ten new compositions with the first take each time, resulting in an end product with the immediacy that is the common denominator in all of Shipp's dozen of recordings under his name. His name would denote the group, but Shipp puts so much trust in Bisio and Taylor-Baker, and every time you get richly rewarded. This also helped, says Aaron, that this very conventional ensemble format goes far beyond the conventions of jazz.
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Matthew Shipp Trio: Signature. All About Jazz, February 1, 2019, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Matthew Shipp Trio: Signature at Discogs
- ^ John Garratt: Matthew Shipp Is the Sound of Jazz Opening Up, Again and Again. Pop Matters, February 19, 2019, accessed July 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Mike Borella: Matthew Shipp Trio: Signature. Avant Music News, February 16, 2019, accessed July 24, 2020 .
- ↑ S. Victor Aaron . Something Else !, February 7, 2019, accessed July 24, 2020 .