{"id":7469,"date":"2016-04-14T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2016-04-14T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T04:50:02","slug":"lp-alert-shipp-bisio-guaraldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/04\/lp-alert-shipp-bisio-guaraldi\/","title":{"rendered":"LP Alert: Shipp-Bisio Duo & Vince Guaraldi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vinyl is becoming the preferred medium of listeners to a variety of genres, particularly of young people who counter the traditional youthful notion that anything from their parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 generation must be shunned, even ridiculed. Come to think of it, for people under 30 music on vinyl is more likely to seem an artifact of their grandparents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 generation, but LPs are rebounding. Saturday, when you are flipping through the bins on Record Store Day, you may want to be on the lookout for a couple of additions to the growing supply of new 33&1\/3 RPM jazz LPs.<\/p>\n

Matthew Shipp, Michael Bisio<\/strong>, Live In Seattle<\/a> (Arena Music)<\/p>\n

\"71FDA+ptAXL._SX522_\"Live In Seattle<\/em> was recorded in a former church on International Jazz Day almost exactly a year ago. Frequent collaborators, pianist Shipp and bassist Bisio give intriguing duo performances of five Shipp compositions and three standards. Shipp pays obeisance to the melody and chords of Rogers & Hart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Funny Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during its first chorus while Bisio, using his bow with speed and vigor, invents eerie countermelodies. As the storm subsides, there is a momentary pause before they launch into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Fact,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a Shipp D-minor fantasy. The Roberta Flack hit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where Is The Love?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gets Bisio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wild bowing treatment while Shipp plays straight-time eighth notes, then the two become downright lyrical\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbriefly\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand morph into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Psychic Counterpart,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Bisio pizzicato in traditional time-keeping swing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor a while. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Green Dolphin Street\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 appears in a game of melodic hide-and-seek, but Shipp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chords leave little doubt about what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re playing, and Bisio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s steady ostinato offsets Shipp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s peregrenations.<\/p>\n

The advent of CDs led far too many musicians and producers to stretch music to fill the digital disc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 80-minute capacity to nearly overflowing. But, you know what? With music as demanding and free as Shipp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Bisio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on this LP, 43 minutes and 31 seconds seems just right.<\/p>\n

The Definitive Vince Guarald<\/strong>i<\/em><\/a> (Fantasy)<\/p>\n

Fantasy recently reissued in a four-LP box its compilation of pianist Vince\"Definitive Guaraldi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest recordings for the label. They are all there; the Charlie Brown Christmas pieces, so familiar to generations of TV kids; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great Pumpkin Waltz\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cast Your Fate To The Winds,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Samba de Orfeu\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the other definitive bossa nova pieces; Guaraldi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautiful religious composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hymn To Grace;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Calling Dr. Funk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the early triumph that circulated his nickname; and a couple of dozen others.<\/p>\n

Full disclosure: I wrote the liner notes. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do it again.<\/p>\n

For more on Record Store Day, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vinyl is becoming the preferred medium of listeners to a variety of genres, particularly of young people who counter the traditional youthful notion that anything from their parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 generation must be shunned, even ridiculed. Come to think of it, for people under 30 music on vinyl is more likely to seem an artifact of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}