Julian Cope
Welsh musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator
Matthew Shipp
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
Matthew Shippis an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.
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About the Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shippis an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.
8 Quotes by Matthew Shipp
- 1.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 2.
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 3.
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk – that is confrontational. That’s just a part of the language of jazz – at a certain point.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 4.
Bud Powell’s probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 5.
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there’s not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 6.
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 7.
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader
- 8.
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk – how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
Matthew ShippAmerican pianist, composer, and bandleader