Avant Goodyear with Matthew Shipp, Ghost Trees and Dylan Gilbert

Avant Goodyear with Matthew Shipp, Ghost Trees and Dylan Gilbert

Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

Petra’s Bar
1919 Commonwealth Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28205

Tickets: Free

Matthew Shipp

Jazz piano legend Matthew Shipp is “the politically active icon of New York’s underground jazz scene” (Downbeat). With more than sixty recordings as a leader– and countless more as a sideman– pianist Matthew Shipp is one of the most versatile and prolific jazz musicians of his generation. Shipp’s music has been lauded as “inventive, free, challenging, rich, tapestry-like and playful. But the most common descriptor is ‘unique'” (NPR‘s Piano Jazz). Spanning from his membership in David S. Ware’s legendary, firebrand quartet to his own String Trio (with William Parker and Mat Maneri) to the solo piano work that Jazziz calls proof of his “idiosyncratic genius,” Shipp approaches these diverse musical settings with an unwavering commitment to the honesty of the moment.

Ghost Trees

Dylan Gilbert

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