The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael
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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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15th |
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60:35 |
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Park West Studios, Brooklyn |
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The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael is a jazz album by the Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble with Michael Bisio and Mat Maneri . The recordings, taken on October 30, 2014 at Park West Studios, Brooklyn, were released on April 7, 2015 on Relative Pitch Records .
background
Matthew Shipp's second album from 2015 (after To Duke ) was made possible by a grant from the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation and offered the pianist the opportunity to present himself with his trio as a chamber ensemble . The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael was the pianist's first recording with his Chamber Ensemble , a trio with Michael Bisio on bass and Mat Maneri on viola. Shipp led a similar group in the late 1990s and early 2000s with Maneri and bassist William Parker , the string trio with whom Shipp recorded the albums By the Law of Music and Expansion, Power, Release .
Even though Matthew Shipp was leading this project, he gave space to his peers; "Chapter 3" is a solo performance by Bisio, as is "Chapter 7". Maneri again had room for solo contributions in “Chapter 5” and “Chapter 15”, and his two fellow musicians form a duo in “Chapter 10”, “in which they combine to form a haunting, repetitive figure, a kind of organic minimalism. "
Track list
- Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble: The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael (Relative Pitch Records RPR1035)
- Chapter [s] 1-15
All compositions are by Matthew Shipp.
reception
S. Victor Aaron wrote in Something Else !, in Shipps Chamber Ensemble both “chamber music” aspects and the jazz background come together, and since Maneri plays an instrument that is more often associated with classical than with jazz, his contribution is the decisive one Component that makes this connection evident. This is "very instinctive music by very instinctive souls, who can balance playing the moment with playing with rhythm and grace." Maneri is a violist who thinks like a saxophonist, wrote Aaron and suspects that this is so because he has the great Joe Maneri for his father. According to the author, this tendency already became clear in 2014 on the album Two Men Walking with Ivo Perelman . The younger Maneri, however, is capable of any setting in which the moment is of central importance to art. Each of the 15 “chapters” explores a different idea in order to use the possibilities that can be wrested from a piano, viola and double bass or a combination of these instruments. "The musicality gets the concept off the ground ," sums up Aaron, "but it's the inexhaustible fantasies of Shipp, Maneri and Bisio that make Gospel According to Matthew and Michael take off."
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 14, 2020.
- Information about the album at Bandcamp
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c S. Victor Aaron: Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble - The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael (2015). Something Else, April 13, 2015, accessed August 13, 2020 .
- ^ Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble: The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael at Discogs