Ars Nova Workshop is excited to present the revered pianist Matthew Shipp and his acclaimed trio at Solar Myth on Thursday, March 6, 2025.

Over the course of his three-and-a-half decade career, Matthew Shipp has evolved from a radical outsider on the fringes of the NYC avant-garde to a position as, in the words of DownBeat magazine, “an elder statesman on the free-jazz scene.” He’s achieved such accolades without ever deviating from a single-minded exploration of his own inimitable sonic vocabulary, maintaining his own eccentric orbit around the jazz realm while steadfastly resisting its gravitational pull. His acclaimed trio, featuring bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, has been the primary outlet for those cosmic explorations for the last ten years. The Wire has called the Matthew Shipp Trio, “unquestionably the most important piano trio of its time, not so much extending the literature as starting a whole new volume.”