I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
About Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shippis an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.
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I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
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.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
Bud Powell’s probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there’s not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
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.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
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?
American pianist, composer, and bandleader