More Shipp: Matthew Shipp's "Black Mystery School Pianists & Other Writings"

[clifford_thornton]

Forthcoming/soon on Autonomedia:

https://autonomedia.org/product/black-mystery-school-pianists-and-other-writings-by-matthew-shipp/

Some of these pieces I've read/seen, others are new to me and probably will be to you as well. Looking quite forward to it!

The cover photo of a young Matt is something else.

[mjazzg]

Count me interested

[Rabshakeh]

I'm interested too. The title essay is one of the more insightful essays on jazz that I have read in recent years. 

[JSngry]

This will be a print book, right?

Count me in if so!

[clifford_thornton]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

This will be a print book, right?

Count me in if so!

Yep

[JSngry]

Cool!!!!!

[JSngry]

Ordered.

That's an interesting site btw.

[clifford_thornton]

For what it is worth:

Matthew Shipp and I will be in conversation about our respective books––Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings (Autonomedia, 2025) and Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt (RogueArt, 2023) at Monument, a fantastic gallery and community space in Kingston, on May 30 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public, and we'll have copies of our books available. Matt's is a collection of essays, lectures, and prose beginning with the title essay delineating a landscape of post-Monk pianism into which his own work falls, and the entire volume is a fascinating statement of intent and a quest for knowledge and understanding. My book is a bit different, and documents the 25 recordings (and one printed volume) Matt did for the French label RogueArt as well as providing context through rangy interviews with crucial and long-term collaborators. We hope to see you there!

 

 

(flyer design by d.norsen, with apologies to Steve Albini & Byron Coley)

[Rabshakeh]

Looks amazing. Good luck with the event. 

Is your book out now, by the way? 

[ghost of miles]

27 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

For what it is worth:

Matthew Shipp and I will be in conversation about our respective books––Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings (Autonomedia, 2025) and Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt (RogueArt, 2023) at Monument, a fantastic gallery and community space in Kingston, on May 30 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public, and we'll have copies of our books available. Matt's is a collection of essays, lectures, and prose beginning with the title essay delineating a landscape of post-Monk pianism into which his own work falls, and the entire volume is a fascinating statement of intent and a quest for knowledge and understanding. My book is a bit different, and documents the 25 recordings (and one printed volume) Matt did for the French label RogueArt as well as providing context through rangy interviews with crucial and long-term collaborators. We hope to see you there!

 

 

(flyer design by d.norsen, with apologies to Steve Albini & Byron Coley)

It's worth quite a lot! Thanks for the heads-up.

[felser]

Beware of the link - I got a virus alert and ended up deleting the page and running a quick virus scan. 

[clifford_thornton]

that happened to me on a different browser just now -- I'll see if Autonomedia can fix it.

[JSngry]

I have the book on tap to get to here shortly. Looking forward to it!

[felser]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

that happened to me on a different browser just now -- I'll see if Autonomedia can fix it.

I use Firefox.

[clifford_thornton]

here is video of Matt and myself interviewed by Hank Shteamer for the event at Monument:

 

[MomsMobley]

https://evgrieve.com/2025/06/residents-baffled-by-new-citybench.html

Residents baffled by new CityBench outside their door on 3rd Street

"Lorna Lentini, who lives directly in front of the newly installed bench, said she and her neighbor, Matthew Shipp..."

Edited July 1 by MomsMobley

[OliverM]

Got this little book in a parisian record shop. Fascinating read. Sometimes debatable positions, but great to get into this type of mapping/ matrix of a gifted musician.

[clifford_thornton]

On 7/1/2025 at 2:43 AM, MomsMobley said:

https://evgrieve.com/2025/06/residents-baffled-by-new-citybench.html

Residents baffled by new CityBench outside their door on 3rd Street

"Lorna Lentini, who lives directly in front of the newly installed bench, said she and her neighbor, Matthew Shipp..."

weird!

Lorna is a photographer and took photos for a number of Shipp CDs on RogueArt.

[JSngry]

Benches? Junkies?

Shades of the Sonny Rollins bio!!!