Matthew ShippBest Matthew Shipp Albums Ranked
7.8
Avg Score
6
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8
Albums
1
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Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Matthew Shipp's catalog across 8 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 7.8/10. The top-rated Matthew Shipp album is Matthew Shipp's New Orbit (2001) with a 8.8/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Equilibrium and I've Been To Many Places. The discography on Wavelength spans 2001 to 2014.
Matthew Shipp's New Orbit
“We live in a world of disasters and near-disasters. Accidents, misfortunes, and catastrophes seem to present themselves to us with alarming regularity, and oftentimes, we're completely unaware that they exist. Such is the case with the career of jazz pianist Matthew Shipp. At the cusp of a new millennium, Shipp was ready to go on what could be described as an indefinite hiatus-- a break from recor”
Equilibrium
“Last year, pianist Matthew Shipp stomped across the college charts with the funked up *Nu-Bop*, a jazz album augmented with beats and synths. He's not the only top-drawer jazzbo making serious use of electronica; more and more bands are mixing the acoustic with the electric and the improvised with the processed, from labelmates Spring Heel Jack to the glitched-up fusion of Norway's Jaga Jazzist. S”
I've Been To Many Places
“Matthew Shipp's latest finds him revisiting music from his past for the second time in as many years, but the record possesses an immediacy that eschews sentimental reflection. Pulsing and bubbling with focused drive, I’ve Been to Many Places focuses more on where Shipp’s mind is at the moment than where it’s been in the past.”
Nu Bop
“Pianist Matthew Shipp would be infuriatingly overconfident if he didn't back himself up so well. Beginning in 2000 with *Pastoral Composure*, and moving on through *New Orbit* (see the phrase in the liner notes: "Cosmic Consciousness") and his work with the David S. Ware Quartet on their *Corridors and Parallels*, the man seems to be suggesting he's onto some kind of metaspatial physics that's all”
One
“Latest Thirsty Ear release often resembles the early 20th century piano studies of Ravel or Debussy as closely as it does modern jazz.”
Harmony and Abyss
“Latest Blue Series release from this NYC downtown jazz mainstay finds him leaving jazz orthodoxy and improvisation even further in his rearview.”
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