Piano Vortex

Piano Vortex
Studio album by Matthew Shipp
Released 2007
Recorded February 28, 2007
MPI Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 53:13
Label Thirsty Ear
Matthew Shipp chronology
Salute to 100001 Stars
(2006)
Piano Vortex
(2007)
Right Hemisphere
(2008)

Piano Vortex is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp recorded in 2007 and released on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series. He leads a traditional acoustic piano trio with Joe Morris on bass and Whit Dickey on drums.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Piano Vortex is the most intimate recording Shipp has made in a long while. He looks back through the music's history and speaks with it, as it informs his own extension of it."[1]

The All About Jazz review by Troy Collins says "The trio blends turbulent swing with brooding ambience. Shipp's writing embodies a dusky, foreboding quality, coloring restless momentum with shades of uncertainty; his pieces veer from still melancholy to tumultuous agitation."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Matthew Shipp
  1. "Piano Vortex" – 10:27
  2. "Key Swing" – 3:21
  3. "The New Circumstance" – 9:12
  4. "Nooks and Corners" – 4:10
  5. "Sliding Through Space" – 8:54
  6. "Quivering with Speed" – 6:39
  7. "Slips Through the Fingers" – 3:17
  8. "To Vitalize" – 7:13

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Matthew Shipp – Piano Vortex: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  2. Collins, Troy. Piano Vortex review at All About Jazz
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/6/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.