The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael

The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael
Studio album by Matthew Shipp
Released	2015
Recorded	October 30, 2014
Studio	Parkwest Studios, Brooklyn
Genre	Jazz
Length	60:42
Label	Relative Pitch
Producer	Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp chronology
To Duke (2015) The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael (2015) Our Lady of the Flowers (2015)

The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2014 and released on Relative Pitch. It was the first recording featuring his Chamber Ensemble, a trio with Michael Bisio on bass and Mat Maneri on viola. Shipp led in the late 1990s and early 2000s a similar group with Maneri and bassist William Parker: the String Trio, who recorded the albums By the Law of Music and Expansion, Power, Release.

Reception[]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	[1]

The Down Beat review by Bradley Bambarger states "The 15 'chapters' of Shipp’s archly titled yet intense, interior suite don’t offer much of a journey in terms of color—this hour of music ranges from austerely ruminative to evocative of angst in the manner of postwar high modernism."^[1]

In a review for Tiny Mix Tapes, Clifford Allen says "The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael is of a piece with much of Shipp’s work, as it focuses on multivalent communication between individuals to create a group language that is both singular and partial."^[2]

Track listing[]

1. "Chapter 1" – 4:22
2. "Chapter 2" – 2:03
3. "Chapter 3" – 2:24
4. "Chapter 4" – 4:33
5. "Chapter 5" – 2:20
6. "Chapter 6" – 3:57
7. "Chapter 7" – 2:35
8. "Chapter 8" – 6:57
9. "Chapter 9" – 3:02
10. "Chapter 10" – 2:36
11. "Chapter 11" – 5:55
12. "Chapter 12" – 3:00
13. "Chapter 13" – 4:02
14. "Chapter 14" – 8:16
15. "Chapter 15" – 4:40

Personnel[]

• Matthew Shipp - piano
• Michael Bisio – bass
• Mat Maneri – viola

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