Matthew Shipp: Mystic Vocation & Root of Things

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, we are joined by pianist, composer, Matthew Shipp, for a discussion of his most recent recording, Root of Things. 

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Sunday 3/02/2014 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM

Artist	Song	Album	Label
William Parker Orchestra	Caravan	Essence of Ellington: Live in Milano	Centering Records
Duke Ellington	Rain Check	. . . and his mother called him Bill	Bluebird
Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	A Flower is a Lovesome Thing	Lush Life	Red Baron
Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Love Passed Me By	Lush Life	Red Baron
Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Something to Live For	Lush Life	Red Baron
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Matthew Shipp	Module	One	Thirsty Ear
Matthew Shipp	GNG	Harmonic Disorder	Thirsty Ear
Matthew Shipp Trio	Jazz It	Root of Things	Relative Pitch
Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee	You Stepped Out of a Dream	You Stepped Out of a Cloud	Owl
Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee	Newswatch	You Stepped Out of a Cloud	Owl
Roscoe Mitchell	Ride the Wind	Conversations	Wide Hive
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David S. Ware featuring Muhammad Ali	Duality is One	Planetary Unknown	AUM-Fidelity
Steve Coleman & Five Elements	Cerebrum Crossover	Functional Arrhythmias	Pi Recordings
Sam Rivers / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul	Disc Two: Part 4	Reunion: Live in New York	Pi Recordings
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Matthew Shipp Trio	Code J	Root of Things	Relative Pitch
Matthew Shipp Trio	Path	Root of Things	Relative Pitch
Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles
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Ivo Perelman	Serendipity (excerpt)	Serendipity	Leo

Greil Marcus Talks About The Doors Secret Alphabets, Matthew Shipp Appears In The Upcoming Film, The Composer

Show description for Sunday 2/26/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, Matthew Shipp returns to discuss his most recent recording, featuring Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey, Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear).
Later in the program, Greil Marcus, pictured at right, joins us to talk about his new book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years.

"Nobody reads a song like Greil Marcus, whose prose is as passionate and omnivorous as the music he loves. Here he travels by way of Thomas Pynchon, Pop Art and Charles Manson to bring the chaotic, majestic, death-haunted Doors back to doomed and haunting life." -- Salman Rushdie

"No one thinks or writes like Greil Marcus. He has a genius for putting the aural dream-language of music into words, for making you 'hear' songs you thought you knew as if for the first time. Not just hear, but, as he puts it, 'feel on your skin' well after the song is over. Because 'the story it's telling is still going on.'" -- Mary Gaitskill

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Roscoe Mitchell Quartet	Mr. Freddy	Before There Was Sound	Nessa
	Roscoe Mitchell Quartet	Green	Before There Was Sound	Nessa
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Psychic Counterpart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Frame Focus	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Flow Chart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Cecil Taylor	Intro. To 15 Part 3A	Dreaming Of The Masters: Thelonious Monk	DIW
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	Betty Carter & Geri Allen	Stardust / Memories Of You	Droppin' Things	Bet-Car (Verve)
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Mute Voice	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Explosive Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Raw Materials	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles
	The Doors	The End	The Doors	Elektra
	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles
	The Doors	When The Music's Over	Strange Days	Elektra
	The Doors	Soul Kitchen	The Doors	Elektra
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	Art Ensemble Of Chicago	As Clear As The Sun	Tribute To Lester	ECM
	Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Cecil Taylor	Caseworks	Dreaming Of The Masters: Thelonious Monk	DIW
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	Roscoe Mitchell Quartet	Jo Jar	Before There Was Sound	Nessa

Matthew Shipp Interview on Elastic Aspects

Show description for Sunday 1/22/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, pianist, composer, Matthew Shipp returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent projects, including the forthcoming Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear). A preeminent figure in the development of the new music, Shipp stands among the giants of international art today. Also this afternoon, selections from the rare lp A Sign / I Was Not Alone (Out & Out Books, 1977), featuring the poetry of Adrienne Rich and the late Audre Lorde.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	The Last Poets	Beyonder	Delights Of The Garden	Celluloid
	Jayne Cortez	I Have Been Searching	Taking The Blues Back Home	Harmolodic - Verve
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Alternative Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Psychic Counterpart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Jonesy	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Hank Mobley	No Room For Squares	No Room For Squares	Blue Note
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	Carmen McRae	As Time Goes By	Carmen McRae Alone	Amigo
	Carmen McRae	I Could Have Told You	Carmen McRae Alone	Amigo
	Carmen McRae	More Than You Know	Carmen McRae Alone	Amigo
	Audre Lorde	Meet	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Frame Focus	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Flow Chart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Mute Voice	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Quincy Troupe	Finding The Lost Art Of Faith	A New Tongue	Soundart
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	Adrienne Rich	The Mirror In Which Two Are Seen As One	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Etta James	W-O-M-A-N	R&B Dynamite	Flair
	Etta James	I'd Rather Go Blind	Chess Classics	Chess
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Explosive Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Raw Materials	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Audre Lorde	From The House Of Yemanje	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Skies	Blue Skies	JMT
	Cassandra Wilson	Apricots On Their Wings	Days Aweigh	JMT
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	Matthew Shipp Trio	Rain Forest	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Black Lightning (excerpt)	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Stage 10	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Dimension	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Marlena Shaw	Liberation Song	Chess Classics	Chess

New Music, New Poetry: Odean Pope, Farmers By Nature, Al Young, Ishmael Reed, Matthew Shipp, William Parker

Patrice Lumumba, pictured above, (July 2, 1925 – January 17, 1961) Know your history, know your culture. Your independence depends on your remembrance. Each one, teach one.

Show description for Sunday 7/3/2011 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

PLEASE NOTE: MR. BARAKA HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO A LATER DATE

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, and activist, Amiri Baraka, returns to New Day Jazz to discuss the recent biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by the late Manning Marable.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Odean Pope	Custody Of The American Spirit	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Odean Pope	Mwalimu	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Odean Pope	The Binder	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Ishmael Reed	If I Am A Welfare Queen Where Are My Jewels And Furs?	For All We Know	Konch Records
	Al Young	Sundays In Democracies	Something About The Blues	Sourcebooks
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	Farmers By Nature	Mud, Mapped	Out Of This Worlds Distortions	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker Organ Quartet	The Struggle	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
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	Matthew Shipp	The New Fact	Art Of The Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp	3 In 1	Art Of The Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Al Young	Straight, No Chaser	Something About The Blues	Sourcebooks
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	Odean Pope	Blues	Universal Sounds	Porter
	William Parker Organ Quartet	Jacques Groove	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
	William Parker Organ Quartet	Ennio's Tag	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
	Al Young	Conjugal Visits	Something About The Blues	Sourcebooks
	Ishmael Reed	Army Nurse	For All We Know	Konch Records
	Farmers By Nature	For Fred Anderson	Out Of This Worlds Distortions	AUM-Fidelity
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	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Dreaming Of The Master	Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming Of The Masters Vol. 2

Matthew Shipp and the Cosmic Piano

Show description for Sunday 3/6/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Composer, pianist, Matthew Shipp, returns to NDJ, to discuss his most recent release, Art of the Improviser.

Later in the program we are joined by saxophonist, arranger, poet, Roy Nathanson, to talk about his most recent project with The Jazz Passengers, Reunited.

Also, this afternoon, a special tribute to Lou Reed, who celebrated his 69th birthday this past week.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Matthew Shipp Solo	Module	Art of the Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Solo	Gamma Ray	Art of the Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Solo	Patmos	Art of the Improviser	Thirsty Ear
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	Matthew Shipp Trio	The New Fact	Art of the Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	3 In 1	Art of the Improviser	Thirsty Ear
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	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part One	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part One	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part One	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part One
	Bud Powell	Glass Enclosure	The Amazing Bud Powell Volume Two	Blue Note
	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part Two	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part Two	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part Two	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part Two
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	The Velvet Underground	The Murder Mystery	The Velvet Underground	Verve
	Lou Reed & John Cale	Smalltown	Songs for Drella	Sire
	Lou Reed & John Cale	Open House	Songs for Drella	Sire
	Lou Reed & John Cale	Images	Songs for Drella	Sire
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	The Jazz Passengers	The National Anthem	Reunited	Yellowbird
	The Jazz Passengers	Think of Me	Reunited	Yellowbird
	The Jazz Passengers	One Way Or Another	Reunited	Yellowbird
	The Jazz Passengers	Augie the Rat	Implemented Yourself	New World
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	Interview with Roy Nathanson by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Roy Nathanson by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Roy Nathanson by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Roy Nathanson by Justin Desmangles
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	Roy Nathanson	Dear Brother	Subway Moon	Yellowbird
	Lou Reed	Dirty Blvd.	New York	Sire
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	Lou Reed	Hanging Around (Demo)	Trasformer	RCA

Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4

Show description for Sunday 11/21/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Please note: NDJ begins at 4:15 today, rather than 3:00.

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, we present part four of a four part series, Bob Kaufman, Poet.This radio documentary, created by David Henderson, originally aired on Pacifica Radio in 1991. For those not familiar with the life and work of Bob Kaufman, this is a wonderful opportunity to become acquainted with one of the most important poets of the Beat Generation.New Day Jazz extends special thanks to Q.R. Hand, Jr. for the use of these archival recordings.

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	Declared Enemy	Flowers	Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
	Declared Enemy	Alberto's Workshop	Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
	Declared Enemy	Mettray	Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
	Declared Enemy	Black Panthers	Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
	Wordwind Chorus	The Movement	We Are of the Saying	We Are of the Saying
	Declared Enemy	Abdallah	Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
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	Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians	East St. Louis Toodle-Oo	Ralph Ellison: Living with Music	Columbia
	Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians	Black & Tan Fantasy	Ralph Ellison: Living with Music	Columbia
	Jimmy Rushing	Harvard Blues	Ralph Ellison: Living with Music	Columbia
	Jimmy Rushing	Down Hearted Blues	Ralph Ellison: Living with Music	Columbia
	William Parker	The Struggle	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
	Marshall Allen	Heart Aura	Night Logic	Rogue Art
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	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4
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	Marshall Allen	Bow in the Cloud	Night Logic	Rogue Art
	Tyrone Brown featuring John A. Williams	Readings from Safari West	Suite for John A. Williams	Dreambox Media

Matthew Shipp's NIGHT LOGIC

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Show description for Sunday 7/11/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Shipp returns to New Day Jazz this week on the four o'clock hour. Among the most innovative and inspiring of contemporary artists, Shipp will be discussing his most recent recording, Night Logic (RogueArt), featuring one of the most important alto saxophonists in the history of music, Marshall Allen, as well as longtime collaborator, Joe Morris, on bass.

New Day Jazz

Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely.

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	Declared Enemy	Flowers	Salute to 1000001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	RogueArt
	Declared Enemy	Alberto's Workshop	Salute to 1000001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	RogueArt
	Declared Enemy	Mettray	Salute to 1000001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	RogueArt
	Declared Enemy	Black Panthers	Salute to 1000001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	RogueArt
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	Matthew Shipp	4D	4D	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp	The Crack in the Piano's Egg	4D	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp	Equilibrium	4D	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp	Teleportation	4D	Thirsty Ear
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	Marshall Allen-Matthew Shipp-Joe Morris	Ark of the Harmonic Covenant	Night Logic	RougueArt
	Marshall Allen-Matthew Shipp-Joe Morris	Bow in the Cloud	Night Logic	RougueArt
	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part One
	Marshall Allen-Matthew Shipp-Joe Morris	Night Logic	Night Logic	RougueArt
	Interview with Matthew Shipp by Justin Desmangles Part Two

The Prevalence of Ritual: Matthew Shipp Talks with Justin Desmangles

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Show Description for Sunday 01/24/2010: This week on the 4 o'clock hour, an exclusive in-depth interview with one of the contemporary masters of jazz and improvised music; pianist, composer, Matthew Shipp. Artist Song Album Label Matthew Shipp Nu Bop Nu Bop Live Rai Trade Matthew Shipp From the Otherside of Anywhere Nu Bop Live Rai Trade Matthew Shipp Rocket Shipp Nu Bop Live Rai Trade -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Matthew Shipp The Crack in the Piano's Egg 4D Thirsty Ear Matthew Shipp Equilibrium 4D Thirsty Ear Mathew Shipp Teleportation 4D Thirsty Ear Matthew Shipp Dark Matter 4D Thirsty Ear -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Declared Enemy Flowers Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet RogueArt Declared Enemy Alberto's Workshop Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet RogueArt Declared Enemy Mettray Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet RogueArt Declared Enemy Black Panthers Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet RogueArt -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Interview with Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles Matthew Shipp & Roscoe Mitchell Duo Matthew Shipp & Roscoe Mitchell Duo Thirsty Ear

Matthew Shipp / Justin Desmangles exchange on Bud Powell

Happy birthday bud-
even amoung jazz pianists I don’t think the knowledge of how transendent a poetic genius bud was has sunk in. beautiful poem by ismeal reed and while looking down the page I did not realize that anita oday had died.
anyway I put my new solo cdr in mail other day-be on lookout-release date is in january but we are looking to get some really early buzz.
thanks
matt

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I have a hard time understanding the lack of understanding about Bud, I mean this guy was it! You know that solo session for Verve, 1951? Oblivion, Dusk At Sandi &c. O U T ! Or the 1961 concert in West Germany with Pettiford and Clark, man that brother is just beyond beyond . . . I have yet to hear, on records that is, anything resembling the level of intensity on Cleopatra's Dream. Those compositions on the last two dates before leaving for Paris, The Scene Changes & Time Waits are ecstatic. I mean is the guy just too mercurial? You know that story Francis Paudras tells about how he and Bud are visiting New York, this is 63, 64 as I recall, and Ornette drops by after several attempts to reach them, and tells Bud that all his music is based on the 7th's in his left hand. Dance Of The Infidels.
Justin

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To answer your question about how bud gets lost in the discourse-in jazz
piano now everybody views things through a post miles prism which means
piano is viewed through the -keith-chick and herbie prism with people seeing
bill evens as the father of that.other than that now it is hip to view monk
as a weird genius-and the marketing of that idea is easy because the
name-and the persona all fit together in a way where that idea can be
marketed. So bud just becomes a bebop pianist in a lot of people's minds and
to make matters worst when people think of bebop they think of bird and diz
who are the salesman of the idea of bebop and who most people think of the
founders of it. That is a paradox considering bud was the heaviest of all of
them.
thanks
matthew shipp

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I think a lot of Bud's neglect has to do with how starkly his life story reflects the institutional injustices and systemic violence of racism in the United States and it's defining role in the historical panorama of jazz in particular. It's vivid illustrations of the role psychiatry, and so-called medicine, has played in destroying human beings, creative people in general but black men and women in particular, does little to harmonize what I call the "celebrity jazz" exemplified by the post miles prism you spoke of.

Also he, Bud, may also be quite literally too deep for the type of vulgar feeble minded revisions exemplified by say a Jarrett Trio on ECM. Too deep in it's reflection of waters, still and unstill, in the sacred wound that was so often the wellspring of his improvising, composing, joy, pains, satisfactions, refusals, acceptances. Certainly Bud's music is far too black for say a Ken Burns, who scorches and torches everything til it becomes a blanched cinder, burns jazz, burns Jack Johnson &c.

Then there are those chords! Those right hand single note runs! Defying all means of categorization, all means of ordered recognition, "these into those into these, to this and finally that" NO!

Evans once said that Bud was the only musician he heard that gave him the same sense of the profound that he recieved while listeniong to Bach. It's on the CD that came with Randi Hultin's book of a few years back.

There is also Bud's humanity, which I think also frightens people, the sense of vulnerability which refuses to enclose itself in solipsism.
Justin

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I agree wholeheartedly
matt
Ps-these are the real deep reasons-I gave you more the musician type reasons

Matthew Shipp responds to Willard Jenkins

1.why is he among the group of artists who forever feel the need to raise their own flag while at the same time stomp and descrate other folks flag.

where do you get that from. In all my public interviews-I have only said negative things about 3 musicians ever-wynton-keith jarrett and wayne shorter the vast totality of my interviews are 100 per cent positive,and im completely open minded about what everyone is doing-at least in my public persona -and ive been interviewed more than anyone I know in the last 20 years. If you look at the people ive come down on-wynton has used his position as a millionare with corporations as a bully pulpit to say that nothing is valid except what he does-ie the avant garde is wrong-rock is wrong etc etc. keith jarrett basically thinks he is god and tells audiences that have made him a millionare that its their privilige to hear him and not his privillige to play for him. And wayne –well that’s another whole story that I will not get into but everyone knows that he and herbie make substandard cds and performances while getting the top possible fees and constantly get away with faking it these days despite there great history in the 60s and early 70s-everyone in jazz knows that. So I find it interesting that you would say come down on someone like me who ekes out a living in this and not these other people who are all very wealthy. That to me exposes you as possibily one of the biggest jazz industry whores alive.

2. Why does he forever seem to feel a need to down others in favor of his means of music making.
that actually sounds like you are talking about wynton-who you wrote a letter to downbeat defending against what I said about him once.again that to me says more about you mr jazz prostitute. When have I ever downed others in favor of my means of making music.
3. From someone as exalted as miles davis such putdowns often come off as humorous—but frankly matthew hasn’t reached such an exalted position
willard this really exposes you as someone severly fucked up-what does someones exalted position within a business structure jazz or otherwise especially considering the jazz one is desimated nowadays- have to do with there acumen for seeing the truth about an issue. Anyone that would make the statement you made is a sick sick person.also a lot of people did not think the miles was funny-you can look at the letter section of old downbeats to find that out.this statement makes you come off as some type of upwardly mobile jazz business prostitute again.
4. Why is that impulse toward negative putdown necessary to act on in print.
has it ever accured to you that there might be some issues that need to be put out there and its about more than saying nice things about the jazz success mafia that you willard jenkins want to be assiociated with because you think it makes you look good
5. Is the forever angry artist posture really necessary and productive toward meeting his musical goals.
willard I would not worry about me meeting my musical goals-I have that taken care off-gary giddens once called me insatiably productive-so thanks but don’t worry about that.
again the thrust of my public presentation has been positive in the 20 years ive been giving interviews. I consider myself a positive force –unlike your friend wynton who I consider the most negative force ever in the music. And you willard are everything that is wrong with jazz-a 100 percent negative force- so please stop you why can’t we get along jazz dribble-its transparent-its tired –you are tired and everything you represent is tired.

thanks
matthew shipp


On 7/14/09 1:11 PM, Willard Jenkins wrote:

Thanks for forwarding the Matthew Shipp piece from the Boston jazz blog. However the piece again raises the same question I always have whenever I read an interview with Matthew: Why is he among the group of artists who forever feel a need to raise their own flag while at the same time stomp on and desecrate other folks’ flags? Why is he not simply content with striving to be the best Matthew Shipp that he can be and allow others to do likewise in whatever artistic manner they choose? Why does he forever seem to feel a need to down others in favor of his means of making music? That inclination on his part is forever perplexing and frankly doesn’t really serve his purposes well. From someone as exalted as Miles Davis such putdowns often came off as humorous more than anything else – particularly if you’d followed Miles’ career arc and/or ever had a real conversation with the man; but frankly Matthew hasn’t reached such an exalted position and his career arc continues on an upward path – at least as I hear his music. Again, why is that impulse toward negative putdown necessary to act on in print? And is the forever-angry-artist posture really necessary and productive towards meeting his musical goals?
Peace,
Willard Jenkins

Billie's Detour (Dedicated to a genius)

Here is a recent play-list from a broadcast at KDVS in Davis, Ca. I was very graciously joined at the end of the show by the great pianist Matthew Shipp and poet Steve Dalachinsky. The version of Day Dream at the start of the show was the original recording. I followed it with a very interesting arrangement of the Strayhorn composition by pianist Dick Katz for Helen Merrill from the Milestone album, The Feeling Is Mutual. This very fine record has just recently been reissued by Mosaic as a CD with the other album Ms. Merrill recorded with the Katz group for Milestone. The highlight of the show, for me, was the 1951 recording by Billie Holiday of Detour Ahead. From her only session for Alladdin, accompanied by the Tiny Grimes Sextet, the lyric and delivery thereof, have Lady Day at her existential best! Also on this show was the always astounding Mingus Sextet of 1964. This particular group featured Eric Dolphy on alto sax, Johnny Coles at the trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor sax, Jaki Byard on piano and Dannie Richmond, of course, on drums. I played the relatively scarce double album Concertgebouw Amsterdam April 10th 1964. I chose Ow (Dedicated to a genius), which is an homage to Charlie Parker. Though I played some Bird before this cut, and even the original Anthropology from Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas, I realized a musical ambiance more conducive to Ow (Dedicated to a genius) could have been created. I think in the future I will do a show only on Bird and his music concluding with this Mingus masterpiece. As Mingus said at the time, "We're trying to make him live a little bit, here."


Day Dream - Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra
Day Dream - Helen Merrill & Dick Katz
Deep In A Dream - Helen Merrill (duet with Jim Hall)
Something To Remember You By - Thad Jones (duet with Kenny Burrell)
Billie Holiday - Detour Ahead
Billie Holiday - Be Fair To Me Baby
Billie Holiday - Blue Turning Grey Over You
Johnny Griffin Quartet - I Remember You
Louis Smith - Au Privave
Annie Ross - This Time's The Dreams On Me
Annie Ross - Let There Be Love
Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Resonant Emotions
The Metronome All-Stars - Victory Ball
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Anthropology
Charles Mingus Sextet - Ow (Dedicated to a genius)
Matthew Shipp Trio - Light
Matthew Shipp & Steve Dalachinsky Interview Part 1
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - The Clothed Woman
Matthew Shipp & Steve Dalachinsky Interview Part 2
Matthew Shipp Trio - When The Curtain Falls On The Jazz Theatre