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The 4th Baku International Piano Festival has opened its creative journey not on a traditional concert stage, but in the ...

The Village Voice sits down with jazz pianist Matthew Shipp to discuss Andre 3000's bad music, Rothko's great paintings, and much in between.

Pianist Brian Hsu and Francis Scully’s New Resonance Orchestra will perform Tucker Fuller's new work as well as Mozart's ...

The Sun Ra Arkestra leader blew his horn with gusto at Solar Myth on Sunday, with the OutKast rapper turned flautist and piano player joining him on stage.

Styled by Law Roach, his entire look was a wearable metaphor: a nod to his new experimental EP, 7 Piano Sketches; a visual riff on the album cover, and a perfect fit for this year’s theme ...

For what it’s worth, André is right that people should follow their muse and release whatever music they want, regardless of how critics receive it, and Shipp was right that 7 Piano Sketches is ...

“These piano sketches are improvisations,” André wrote in a personal note alongside the release. OK. “To conjure them up, I spread my fingers out on the keys and randomly but with purpose ...

In a Facebook post, Shipp ranted that 7 Piano Sketches is “complete and utter crap” and “does not even deserve the attention of a critique it is so dreadful.” Here’s what he wrote ...

A first listen to sketches almost dares you to dismiss these piano takes as throwaway fragments that stop short before achieving any kind of liftoff, but repeated spins reveal a wealth of ...

In 7 Piano Sketches, he goes for almost literally the last thing you’d predict from one of the greatest rappers ever: 16 minutes of improvised doodles, mostly recorded at home in 2013 ...

Instead of doing what people want or expect, he’s out here following his muse wherever it takes him. In 7 Piano Sketches, he goes for almost literally the last thing you’d predict from one of the ...