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Matthew Shipp Trio at First Presbyterian Church

Courtesy of Gary Funston | Posted on April 28, 2019

Where

First Presbyterian Church
500 Park St.
Charlottesville, VA
Map

Matthew Shipp Trio at First Presbyterian Church

When

Sat, June 1, 2019
8:00 pm

Musicians

Michael Bisio
bass, acoustic

About

On Saturday June 1st at 8:00 pm, The Charlottesville Jazz Society welcomes The Matthew Shipp Trio to Charlottesville for a concert at First Presbyterian Church on Park Street. The group is celebrating the release of “Signature,” their new recording on the ESP label.

Matthew Shipp, who turns 60 this year, has established himself as one of the most original voices on the piano of his generation. After dozens of recordings in a wide variety of styles on the Thirsty Ear label, he is talking about winding down his recording career. Charlottesville audiences will want to be sure to take this opportunity to hear and see this one of a kind artist perform. He has been described as a dancer at the piano. Downbeat Magazine says: “Matthew Shipp is the connection between the past, present and future for jazz heads of all ages," and All About Jazz raves that: “Like Thelonious Monk (Shipp) has created a musical vocabulary and language that is idiosyncratic and incomparable in today’s improvised jazz.’’...

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