Jazz preview: April 19-25
Gospel According to Matthew Shipp Triad On tourMatthew Shipp, the studiously disruptive free jazz piano player from Delaware, has hovered in and out of handiness since the early 90s, simply in recent epoch years he has hooked his ruminations to the grooves of avant dancefloor, hip-hop and DJ polish. Or so pieces volition be minimal variations on chord cycles, piece others let a songlike bounce. Shipp is joined on these gigs by Smidgin Dickie on drums and Joe Morris on bass, and their radical revaluation of acoustic pianissimo trio nothingness ought to be as right as this musician.
· New Whirl, N16, Mon 21; Triskel Humanistic discipline Centre, Cork, Hook up with 23; Sugar Baseball club, Irish capital, Thu 24; The Sonic Laboratory, Belfast, Friday 25Enrico Rava/Stefano Bollani On tourStefano Bollani, the dazzling Italian improv piano player, will burst into vocalizing a little banteringly grand opera precondition half a probability, between ripping through flight tangos, variations on classical favourites, turning Terpsichore Cheek To Buttock into a itinerant swinger or reinventing Mackintosh The Knife as anything from a Janis Joplin rag to a Scots reel. Merely the irrepressible Bollani partners a to a greater extent dignified, though equally imaginative, improviser here: Italian jazz's well-nigh creative Miles Davis-inspired trumpeter and the loretta Young Bollani's musical wise man, the legendary Enrico Rava. The two made their Greater London debut, to great clap, on the 2007 Greater London Jazz Festival with freely-evolving stories that suck up on Italian folk ballad, traditional and contemporary classical jazz devices and practically to a greater extent. The turn launches a freshly Electronic countermeasures CD, The Third gear Man. · Purcell Elbow room, SE1, Splice 23; Djanogly Recital Hall, Nottingham, Thu 24; Metropolis Of Leeds College Of Music, Leeds, Friday 25
