Matthew Shipp

Codebreaker is an excellent title for a Matthew Shipp album. When Shipp plays the piano, it sounds like he’s trying to solve a puzzle that only he, and maybe the ghost of Cecil Taylor, would understand.

That is especially the case for his solo recordings, where he is free to go anywhere his mind takes him. Without his trio or any given accompanist, Shipp can and has bent jazz standards to his will through the power of improvisation.

PERSONNEL:

• Matthew Shipp - piano

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Codebreaker
• A2. Spiderweb
• A3. Disc
• A4. Code Swing
• A5. Letter From the Galaxy

• SIDE B
• B1. Green Man
• B2. Raygun
• B3. Suspended
• B4. Mystic Motion
• B5. Stomp To the Galaxy
• B6. The Tunnel