Matthew Shipp Quartet.

From: Daily Variety | Date: September 16, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

(Blue Note; 280 capacity; $15.)

Presented inhouse. Musicians: Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Guillermo E. Brown. Reviewed Sept. 13, 2004

Both as a leader and an accompanist, Matthew Shipp has proved himself one of the more adept barrier vaulters in modern jazz. He's played unabashedly "out" dates, explored more straightforward hard bop and, most recently, managed to hitch his classically tinged compositions to electronics without making it seem like a shotgun marriage.

At this one-night Gotham stand, Shipp debuted some material from his ...

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