Matthew Shipp

"I never envisioned myself becoming part of a big [dance] club scene, because I was a 'serious jazz musician,' and that was my life. But it happened instantly."

I wrote a book about 60 years of New York City rock music scenes called This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City (you can purchase it here). Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I interviewed a lot of New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and owners, and scenesters —1…