| Shipp, Matthew & Bobby Kapp / Cactus |
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| Album: | Cactus | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Shipp, Matthew & Bobby Kapp | Added: | Mar 2017 | |
| Label: | Northern Spy Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-04-12 | Pull Date: | 2017-06-14 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jun 11 | Jun 4 | May 28 | May 21 | May 7 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 16, 2021: | Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Dec 11, 2021) Before | 4. | Jun 09, 2017: | Rebop Good Wood, Money | |
| 2. | Dec 11, 2021: | Music Casserole Before | 5. | Jun 03, 2017: | Music Casserole Money | |
| 3. | Jun 10, 2017: | Music Casserole After | 6. | Jun 02, 2017: | Rebop After |
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2017-03-27 | ||
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AVA NT-GARDE JAZZ PIANO Representing two generations, the vastly prolific Matthew Shipp (age 56), on piano, teams up here with drummer Bobby Kapp (age 74). Not merely piano with drum accompaniment, the pieces here are much more like duets, truly collaborative. All instrumental. No FCC issues. 1 ** Fast. Free improv. Varied & interesting. Jagged piano. Dense drumming. (8:32) 2 * Mid-tempo. A bit more melodic. Rhythmic & bouncy. (4:27) 3 Mid-tempo. Drums start. Dramatic piano entry. Alternating pounding & skipping. (5:52) 4 ** Mid-tempo. Drum solo (for 1:30). Ominous piano evolves into light-hearted. (6:11) 5 Very slow at first. Tense, anxious, abstract. Gains tempo. Cymbals for last minute. (5:32) 6 * Slow. Drums start. Piano takes over. At times melodic & emotive. Accessable. (8:09) 7 * Varied tempo; slow to very fast. Rhythmic ideas thrown together, superimposed. (10:50) 8 Mid-tempo. Fortissimo pounding. Machine gun drumming. Very tough going. (5:42) 9 Very slow, eerie start. Plodding. Gains some steam but loses it again. (6:08) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Overture | 5. | Cactus | |||
| 2. | Before | 6. | After | |||
| 3. | During | 7. | Good Wood | |||
| 4. | Money | 8. | Snow Storm Coming | |||
| 9. | The 3rd Sound | |||||