# Matthew Shipp is truly one of the leading lights of a new generation of jazz giants: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/12/07/matthew-shipp-is-truly-one-of-the-leading-lights-of-a-new-generation-of-jazz-giants-video/
- Published: 2017-12-07T00:02:37+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**07.12. – Happy Birthday !!! Matthew Shipp was born 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware.
He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced.**

He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly
became one of the leading lights in the New York jazz scene. He was a sideman in
the David S. Ware quartet and also for Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory before making
the decision to concentrate on his own music.

Mr Shipp has reached the holy grail of jazz in that he possesses a unique style 
on his instrument that is all of his own- and he’s one of the few in jazz that can
say so.

Mr. Shipp has recorded a lot of albums with many labels but his two most enduring
relationships have been with two labels. In the 1990s he recorded a number of chamber
jazz albums with Hatology, a group of recordings that charted a new course for jazz
that, to this day, the jazz world has not realized. In the 2000s Mr Shipp has been
curator and director of the label Thirsty Ear’s “Blue Series” and has also recorded
for them. In this collection of recordings he has generated a whole body of work
that is visionary, far reaching and many faceted.

Matthew Shipp is truly one of the leading lights of a new generation of jazz giants.

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