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The Charlottesville Jazz Society Presents Matthew Shipp

Unity of Charlottesville
Charlottesville, VA

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The Charlottesville Jazz Society Presents Matthew Shipp

The Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU-FM Present Matthew Shipp in Concert October 16th.

The incomparable pianist-composer-improviser Matthew Shipp embarks on his first solo piano tour in three years, performing in 6 U.S. cities, October 15 through 30, 2021. The tour brings Shipp's distinctive sonic vernacular and virtuosic artistry to New York City, Charlottesville, Baltimore, Cleveland, Nashville and Ann Arbor. Charlottesville jazz lovers will remember Shipps stunning trio concert at First Presbyterian Church in 2018. This solo piano concert will take place at Unity of Charlottesville on Hydraulic Road at 8:00 pm.
Shipp's tour comes ahead of the release of Codebreaker, his latest solo piano
recording. Within the voluminous catalogue that Matthew Shipp has created over the last three
and a half decades, his solo piano work has charted a unique and compelling pathway for the evolution of the instruments vocabulary. Codebreaker finds Shipp in a meditative state of mind. Though the language is unmistakably his own, his signature attacks, dense clusters and insistent circularity give way to the mysterious resonances that Shipp conjures from the keyboard.
I was actually shocked at how introspective the album was when I listened back to it, Shipp admits. If I try to dissect my motivations, which are not always conscious and which just happen on their own, I see myself really basking in harmony. I'm interested in trying to wring all of the harmonics from the piano that I possibly can,,,"
This tour is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Don't miss Matthew Shipp in concert at Unity of Charlottesville on Saturday October 16th at 8:00 pm. Check the Events tab at Cvillejazz.org for more information, or call (434) 249-6191.