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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
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Matthew Shipp
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 7
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Wilmington
Delaware
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