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“What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.”

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Matthew Shipp is a distinguished jazz pianist, composer, and educator, born on December 7, 1960. Over a career spanning four decades, he has made substantial contributions to the jazz world. Shipp's distinctive style merges avant-garde and free jazz with a profound knowledge of the classical tradition, yielding a diverse and innovative musical repertoire. more

“Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.”

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Author:Horace Silver

“They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.”

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Author:Horace Silver

“Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.”

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