I like Shipp's acoustic works more, New Orbit is better.

Personally I think Matthew Shipp is way way over-rated.

and I probably don't help that much by saying how "great" he is...I probably should go back and listen to his material closely

As mental as it would be, are there any free jazz experiments similar to this in 5.1?

a few others


Joe McPhee, David S. Ware, Andrew Cyrille, Hamid Drake, Toshinori Kondo, William Parker, Fred Anderson, Ellery Eskelin, Tim Berne, Mats Gustafsson, Barry Guy, Marilyn Crispell, John Butcher, Paul Rogers, Peter Kowald, Gerry Hemingway, Keith Tippett, Jimmy Giuffre, Joe Maneri, Paul Dunmall, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Horace Tapscott, Alexander Von Schlippenbach.



I wish Shipp would stick to playing the piano. Of his recordings my favorite would be The Multiplication Table out on Hatology.

I saw David S. Ware and Matthew Ship play about a year back. It was a good show.

I think some of my favorites in this dept are:

Interstellar Space - Coltrane (there's tons of Coltrane i love)
Out To Lunch - Dolphy
Machine Gun - Brotzmann
Guitar / Ask The Ages - Sonny Sharrock
Last Exit (if you like free jazz and have never listened to this band, do so, now)
Free Jazz - Ornette
The Preacher & The Black Woman (i think thats the title!) - Mingus
Tauhid - Pharoah Sanders

I'm sure there are tons more. I'm not by my music to think, however.

The Mingus recording is called The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. It's one of my favorites by Mingus.