The Multiplication Table

The Multiplication Table
Studio album by
Released1998
RecordedJuly 17, 1997
StudioSeltzer Sound, New York City
GenreJazz
Length60:47
LabelhatOLOGY
ProducerArt Lange, Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger
Matthew Shipp chronology
Thesis
(1997)
The Multiplication Table
(1998)
Strata
(1998)

The Multiplication Table is an album by the American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, recorded in 1997 and released on the Swiss hatOLOGY label.

The album features a trio with longtime partner William Parker on bass and newcomer Susie Ibarra on drums, who at the time were the rhythm section for the David S. Ware Quartet. Shipp covers three standards, Joseph Kosma's "Autumn Leaves", Duke Ellington's "C Jam Blues" and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train".