Matthew Shipp - piano

"Like Thelonious Monk before him, Matthew Shipp can take something basic and well established, like, say the blues, and shape it into something that’s far ahead in a dialect that no one will mistake for anyone else. And it’s an approach that enables him to be unconcerned about sounding too much like conventional even when he makes a conscious effort to stay within the established parameters of jazz.” - S. Victor Aaron

Photo by Anna Yatskevich