{"product_id":"bobby-matthew-shipp-kapp-cactus-cd","title":"Bobby \u0026 Matthew Shipp Kapp - Cactus ((CD))","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Valerie Wilmers important socio-political history of the jazz vanguard As Serious As Your Life (Serpents Tail Press, 1977), the chapter on pianist Cecil Taylor is subtitled Eighty-Eight Tuned Drums. Textually this reference advances the role of the piano in free music as percussive in large part, especially as the chordal and melodic directions taken after Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s often appeared to circumvent the more fixed tonalities of the keyboard. Drummers and pianists have been one core team in this music, going back to the forbears and scions of the modern-jazz era  Buddy Rich and Nat Cole; Art Blakey and Herbie Nichols or Thelonious Monk; Denis Charles, Sunny Murray and Andrew Cyrille with Taylor  whether the pianist may work percussively or sculpt the music temporally and melodically. Drummer Bobby Kapp (b. Robert Kaplan on April 11, 1942 in Perth Amboy, NJ) and pianist Matthew Shipp (b. December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, DE) are a team that has only recently come together, though their affinity for one another is natural and rewarding. Cactus is their first duo recording, a spontaneous set coming on the heels of 2015s Themes 4 Transmutation, the latter waxed under the drummers leadership and featuring Shipp, reedist Ras Moshe and bassist Tyler Mitchell. While the cognoscenti may be aware of Kapps name as a firebrand in the mid-60s New York free music underground, he didnt record as a leader back then. In recent years, after relocating to Mexico, hes co-led the standards-rooted Fine Wine Trio with pianist Richard Wyands and bassist Gene Perla, and reunited with alto saxophonist Noah Howard before the latters untimely passing. Kapps restless energy and streetwise lyricism, yen for the blues and supple templates for unfettered expression took him from New Jersey and Staten Island to Berklee College of Music, where he studied with Alan Dawson, and then Lower Manhattan. There, he played and recorded with alto saxophonists Marion Brown and Noah Howard, pianist Dave Burrell and tenor saxophonists Leandro Gato Barbieri and Pharaoh Sanders before eventually settling in an artists colony in San Miguel de Allende. Kapps sideman recordings in the 1960s are scant, comprising two full LP appearances (Barbieris In Search of the Mystery and Howards At Judson Hall, both on ESP), two individual LP halves (Browns watershed Three for Sheep on Impulse! and Burrells High on Douglas), and film footage of Browns trio was captured in 1967 by Henry English, but all of this work presents a rolling, massive and fleet economy somewhere between Elvin Jones and Shelly Manne. His more recent outings have been somewhat under the radar, but the aspects that enticea sure, tempestuous detailare toned with age, experience and fidelity. Shipps piano is the perfect foil for Kapps dryly doled-out metric inventions, his sinewy but factual movements through erudite melody, resonant stomps and granular sideways gestures creating fields and objec\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD Digipak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 9\/16\/16\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD Digipak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bobby \u0026 Matthew Shipp Kapp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42868402520204,"sku":"LYXD8A-GGLZ-VX","price":14.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/8349\/files\/bobby-matthew-shipp-kapp-cactus_Shdnr.jpg?v=1724508366","url":"https:\/\/redyetirecords.com\/products\/bobby-matthew-shipp-kapp-cactus-cd","provider":"Red Yeti Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}