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A Fresh Communiqué from Planet Shipp

Matthew Shipp. Photo by Anna Yatskevich.

My plan was to post three or four more short album reviews to lower the must-listen pile a little, as I did in the previous post. One of those albums was to be The Cosmic Piano, a solo release from pianist Matthew Shipp, S.G. Then, I had the opportunity to speak with His Sui Generisness, so the other albums will have to wait a bit longer.

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3 X 2 = Wow

New releases from the piano trios of Marta Sánchez and Matthew Shipp carve out unique sonic territories.

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Three Times Three, and Three

Two splendid recordings, one from bass clarinetist Todd Marcus’s nonet and the other from cornetist Kirk Knuffke’s new trio, each bring to life the expressive intelligence of both the leaders and their colleagues.

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Grab Bag: Anne Mette Iversen, Julian Wild, and Matthew Shipp

The coronavirus does not seem to have slowed the release of new work by much, though I have noticed a significant uptick in publicists’ emails of late. Here are three new releases from completely different musical universes named Anne Mette Iversen, Julian Wild, and Matthew Shipp.

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