Whit Dickey / Mat Maneri / Matthew Shipp
Vessel in Orbit
2017 - AUM Fidelity: AUM101 
https://www.aumfidelity.com/aum101.html

* Whit Dickey  : drums
* Mat Maneri   : viola
* Matthew Shipp: piano
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whit_Dickey 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Maneri 
https://www.matthewshipp.com/

Recorded and mixed by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios,
Brooklyn, New York, USA, on March 18, 2016.

Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel_in_Orbit


Reviews
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By Stewart Smith 
https://thequietus.com/articles/22261-harriet-tubman-joshua-abrams-matt-mitchell-jazz-review

Vessel In Orbit is the first new group music from drummer-composer Whit Dickey
in over a decade. He’s joined by the peerless Matthew Shipp on piano and
violist Mat Maneri, son of microtonal composer Joe Maneri. The album and track
titles suggest a science-fiction concept, and although there are no obvious
cosmic jazz trappings to this acoustic session, the music is certainly
evocative. ‘Spaceship 9’ (surely a nod to Sun Ra’s ‘Rocket 9’) has Shipp’s
piano beginning the countdown with a single repeated note over Dickey’s weirdly
funky martial snares. Shipp momentarily breaks away with some right hand
abstract flourishes, inviting Maneri to enter with viola lines that are both
plaintive and vigorous. ‘Space Walk’ has the trio negotiating zero
gravity. Maneri’s first tentative steps are accompanied by a distant rumble of
toms. After a few minutes, the violist has drifted far from the ship, his solo
conveying a beautiful sense of wonder and dread. Towards the end, Dickey’s tom
gently pulls him back in. While it’s fun to imagine such narratives, they don’t
really do justice to the inventiveness and fluid musicality of this album,
which ranges from the quiet exploration of ‘Galaxy 9’ to the dense abstraction
of ‘Dark Matter’ and ‘Hyperspatial’. Superb.

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By Rick Joines 
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/04/dickey-maneri-shipp-vessel-in-orbit-aum.html

By Paul Acquaro 
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/06/vision-festival-day-3-blood.html

By Massimo Ricci

By Don Phipps 
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/vessel-in-orbit-whit-dickey-aum-fidelity-review-by-don-phipps.php

Da Giuseppe Segala (it) 
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/vessel-in-orbit-whit-dickey-mat-maneri-matthew-shipp-aum-fidelity-review-by-giuseppe-segala.php