Matthew Shipp

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Signature is another trio album with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, finding Shipp in the process of taking the jazz piano trio to such baffling heights that you'd swear the format no longer has a ceiling. Shipp's faithful would expect no less. Anyone who thought that the jazz piano trio already achieved its apex before Bill Evans grew a beard may die of shock when listening to Signature. The melodies are challenging, the songs ridiculously elastic, and the performances from all three musicians are equal parts virtuosity and vinegar. They have moved several galaxies beyond the melody-solo-solo-solo-melody cycle. Song lengths range from 49 seconds to 16 minutes, and nothing is done by half measures. Signature is the sound of jazz continuing along the progressive arc it was given many decades ago.

PERSONNEL:

• MATTHEW SHIPP, piano
• MICHAEL BISIO, bass
• NEWMAN TAYLOR BAKER, drums

Park West Studio; Brooklyn, New York, July 9 2018

TRACKS:

• 01. Signature
• 02. Deep to Deep
• 03. Flying Saucer
• 04. Snap
• 05. The Way
• 06. Stage Ten
• 07. Speech of Form
• 08. Zo 2
• 09. New Z
• 10. This Matrix