Matthew Shipp Profiled

Source: Bandcamp Daily.

“In some senses, my whole career has been to be an irritant to every aspect of the jazz business. So I think that’s kind of built into who I am.” As that quote makes plain, Matthew Shipp—the avant-jazz pianist and recently appointed “elder statesman” of the art form by DownBeat—still has some energy to speak his mind on the industry he’s spent his entire career critiquing. “I do think the industry’s very ill,” he says. “I’ve always been attempting to find a way to get away.”