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

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/12/06/matthew-shipp-is-truly-one-of-the-leading-lights-of-a-new-generation-of-jazz-giants-video-2/
- Published: 2018-12-06T23:17:12+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**07.12. – Happy Birthday !!! Matthew Shipp was born on 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 2 most enduring
relationships have been with two labels. In the 1990s he recorded a number of chamber
jazz cds with Hatology, a group of cds 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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