Vessel in Orbit
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{{Infobox album
| name = Vessel in Orbit
| type = studio
| artist = Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, and Matthew Shipp
| cover = Vessel in orbit cover.jpeg
| alt =
| recorded = March 18, 2016
| venue =
| studio = Park West, Brooklyn
| genre = Jazz
| length = 48:14
| label = Aum Fidelity
| producer = Whit Dickey
| chronology = Whit Dickey
| prev_title = Fierce Silence
| prev_year = 2016
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
Vessel in Orbit is an album by American jazz drummer Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, and Matthew Shipp recorded in 2016 and released on the Aum Fidelity label. The recording presents a new trio with violist Mat Maneri and pianist Matthew Shipp, who were both part of the quartet, along with saxophonist Rob Brown, for 2001 Dickey's album Life Cycle.[http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum101.html Vessel in Orbit] at AUM Fidelity
Reception
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| rev1 = Down Beat
| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}
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The Down Beat review by Bradley Bambarger states "Although one must be open to a certain exposed-nerve intensity to fully appreciate it, Vessel In Orbit has the air of an abstract drama, the three storyteller-improvisers utterly in sync."Bambarger, Bradley. Vessel in Orbit review. Down Beat May 17: page 56. Print.
Track listing
All compositions by Dickey/Maneri/Shipp.
- "Spaceship 9" – 5:15
- "Space Walk" – 6:37
- "Dark Matter" – 5:58
- "Galaxy 9" – 9:13
- "Turbulence" – 4:51
- "To a Lost Comrade" – 5:39
- "Space Strut" – 4:29
- "Hyperspatial" – 6:12
Personnel
References
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