http://www.metafilter.com/tags/MatthewShipp Posts tagged with 'MatthewShipp' at MetaFilter. Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:59:53 -0800 Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:59:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35110/Jazz%2Dcant%2Dget%2Darrested%2Don%2DMain%2DStreet <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/2000-06-15/music4.html">All Hail the New Jazz!</a> Getting slightly bored with pop and looking to expand your horizons? Can't believe the musty <a href="http://www.pbs.org/jazz/index.htm">Burns/Marsalis version</a> is all there is to jazz? Try the "avant jazz" tradition whose central figures are the amazing bassist <a href="http://www.drimala.com/artists/parker.htm">William Parker</a> (so big and strong I've seen him pick up a bass and play it like a fiddle), <a href="http://www.aumfidelity.com/david-s-ware.html">David S. Ware</a> (to my mind the greatest tenorman since <a href="http://home.att.net/~dawild/john_coltrane.htm">Trane</a>—see him live and you'll never forget it), and pianist <a href="http://www.aumfidelity.com/shipp.html">Matthew Shipp</a> (a frequent collaborator of both). Want a convenient guide to their recordings, with brief descriptions and (tacky but useful) letter grades? <a href="http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/static/parker.php">Here ya go</a>—Tom Hull has great taste, and if he gives a record an A you can be sure it's worth hearing (and he gives you fair warning about somebody like Peter Br&#0246;tzmann, who "sounds more like late Coltrane run through a blender by Einst&#0252;rzende Neubauten: great heaps of noise unleavened by conventional musical signposts"). tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35110 Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:59:53 -0800 avantgarde avantjazz Cooper-Moore DavidSWare jazz MatthewShipp modernjazz music newjazz WilliamParker languagehat