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I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Matthew Shipp
Hatred
Jazz
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Matthew Shipp
Fact
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Matthew Shipp
Name
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
Matthew Shipp
Jazz
Language
Punk
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
Matthew Shipp
Marketing
Name
Style
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Matthew Shipp
Influence
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
Matthew Shipp
People
World
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
Matthew Shipp
People
Being