New Orbit @ 20
When pianist Matthew Shipp, who turned 60 in December 2020, released New Orbit in early 2001, he was embarking on an intriguing new phase in his career. He had signed with the Thirsty Ear label as...
View ArticleGarden of Jewels
While for most musicians, the pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns of 2020 have had a devastating effect on their activities, it must be a particularly frustrating state of affairs for the jazz and...
View ArticleThe Runners-Up: Andrew Hill
The Runners-Up is a monthly column, wherein we will analyze an album that isn’t the consensus first choice or most canonical title by a given artist, but is one worthy of more attention than it’s...
View ArticleBA Podcast 65: Wadada Leo Smith
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 65 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with Wadada Leo Smith. I’ve been listening to Wadada...
View ArticleJD Allen
I realized recently that I’ve been listening to saxophonist JD Allen’s music for ten years. I first encountered his work in 2011, when he’d just released Victory!, his third album with bassist Gregg...
View ArticleBA Podcast 68: Andrew Cyrille
Episode 68 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with drummer Andrew Cyrille. Andrew Cyrille is the last man standing from the first wave of free jazz drummers. He and Milford Graves,...
View ArticleWinter & Spring
Discussed in this essay: William Parker Trio, Painter’s Spring (Thirsty Ear, 2000); William Parker Trio, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity, 2021); Other Dimensions in Music, Live at the Sunset (Marge,...
View ArticleIvo Perelman
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman (listen to his episode of the BA podcast via Osiris, Apple or Spotify) rarely releases a single album’s worth of music at a time. (Polarity, a duo with trumpeter Nate...
View ArticleMatthew Shipp In 2003
I’ve been friends with Matthew Shipp for almost 25 years. I’d already been listening to his music for a year or two before we met for the first time at the Vision Festival in 1998, where I saw him...
View ArticleMatthew Shipp
For those who read 2021’s biography of bassist William Parker, Universal Tonality, there might be no better follow-up than a book about pianist Matthew Shipp. Author and close friend Clifford Allen...
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