Matthew Shipp

USA

Born: 07 December 1960

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz, Avant-Garde

Styles: Modern Creative, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Improvised Music, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Modern Composition

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With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has worked and recorded vigorously from the late '80s onward, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine. He first became well known in the early '90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and soon began leading his own dates -- most often including Ware bandmate and leading bassist William Parker -- and recording a number of duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell to violinist Mat Maneri, the latter another musician who beg...

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