Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the ...

The simultaneous release of two markedly different efforts documents pianist/composer Matthew Shipp's arguably inevitable ascent into the upper echelons of contemporary jazz. The man's rise to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Andre “3000” Benjamin released an ambient, flute-forward — and Grammy-nominated — work last year as his first-ever ...

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Earlier this week, André 3000 surprise-dropped an improvisational piano EP and showed up to the Met Gala with an entire piano on his back. It serves as the follow-up to his 2023 flute album New Blue ...

The world of electro-acoustic music is, well, a small one. It sits in a valley between 'real' jazz (read: acoustic) on the one side and full-blown electronica on the other. By 'small' I meant to imply ...

Shipp, a mainstay of New York's downtown free jazz scene, likes big blocky chords and loud piano sounds. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the new album... Percussive Piano And Rollicking Swing Float ...

Matthew Shipp’s transcendental course hasn’t wavered since the New York–based pianist began recording his first album, a duet with saxophonist Rob Brown called Sonic Explorations, nearly 38 years ago.

In conjunction with the opening reception for the multi-media exhibition, “Freedom Through Collective Improvisation: iEAR Presents! Free Jazz from the Sanctuary,” the Arts Center of the Capital Region ...

The pianist tells it straight about avant-garde music, the Rothko Chapel, laying into André 3000, and championing a Constitutional right to hate on Donald Trump. Not since Miles Davis was captured ...

André 3000’s new piano EP has fans vibing and jazz purists like Matthew Shipp with their keys in a bunch! André 3000 is out here looking like a Black Beethoven. Bro had a literal piano strapped to his ...

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