{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = To Duke | type = studio | artist = Matthew Shipp | cover = To_Duke_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 2015 | recorded = June 10, 2014 | venue = | studio = LowFish Studio, New York City | genre = Jazz | length = 56:28 | label = RogueArt | producer = Michel Dorbon | chronology = Matthew Shipp | prev_title = I've Been to Many Places | prev_year = 2014 | next_title = The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael | next_year = 2015 }}
'''''To Duke''''' is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2014 and released on the French RogueArt label. The album is a tribute to Duke Ellington, featuring Shipp's trio with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey playing seven Ellington classics plus some Shipp compositions.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Down Beat'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="DownBeat"/> }} The ''Down Beat'' review by Bradley Bambarger notes that "Shipp’s instrument has been captured well on ''To Duke''—whether he’s playing glittering lines in the Ellingtonia or the prepared-piano phrases of his original “Tone Poem For Duke”—so it’s too bad the hardworking rhythm section sounds so woolly and boomy."<ref name="DownBeat">Bambarger, Bradley. ''To Duke'' review. ''Down Beat'' August 15: page 87. Print.</ref>
The All About Jazz review by Mark Corroto states "The trio suggests that if you want to listen to Duke, then buy Ellington records. But if you want to magnify the experience, then try some new music."<ref name="AAJ">Corroto, Mark. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/to-duke-matthew-shipp-rogue-art-review-by-mark-corroto.php ''To Duke'' review] at All About Jazz</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Matthew Shipp except as indicated'' # "Prelude to Duke" – 0:44 # "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington) – 6:19 # "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn) – 8:48 # "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" (Duke Ellington) – 5:03 # "Take the A Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 9:04 # "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington / Barney Bigard) – 5:47 # "Dickey Duke" – 4:44 # "Tone Poem for Duke" – 5:02 # "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington) – 3:54 # "Sparks" – 3:26 # "Solitude" (Duke Ellington) – 3:22
==Personnel== *Matthew Shipp – piano *Michael Bisio – bass *Whit Dickey – drums
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Category:2015 albums Category:Matthew Shipp albums Category:RogueArt albums