Dmitri Matheny: Statlight Cafe

Jim Santella

Senior Contributor since 1997

Jim Santella has been contributing CD reviews, concert reviews and DVD reviews to AAJ since 1997. His work has also appeared in Southland Blues, The L.A. Jazz Scene, and Cadence Magazine.

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Published: November 1, 1998

Recorded live at La Note Café and Restaurant Provencal in Berkeley, California earlier this year, Dmitri Matheny’s third album offers ballad material suitable for framing and displaying in the living room where you’ll be able to revisit it every day when you come home from a hard day’s work. The trio’s members form a cohesive seamless unit made up of equal parts soulful expression, caressing phrases, imaginative asides, and dedicated lyricism. Matheny, who will turn 33 on Christmas Day, was born in Nashville and spent his early childhood there. By the time he started learning to play the trumpet his family moved to Tucson, Arizona and the artist’s love for wide-open spaces became embedded in his music. A return to the big city and to the Berklee College of Music in Boston seems to have influenced his compositions as well. More information about the flugelhornist is available from http://www.mathenymusic.com and http://www.monarchrecords.com .

Marian McPartland’s "Twilight World" fuses a subtle Latin rhythm with relaxed flugelhorn and piano musings. Matheny employs an original technique whereby he tapers the end of a centerpiece phrase with a gentle steady stream of air – without tone. It’s as if one were conversing and using a gentle sigh for effect. Matheny’s bop-derived "Geneva" and his happy up-tempo Jamaican romp "Soca Nova" provide a few lively highlights; the audience especially loved Grant’s Monkish piano solo spot on "Geneva." A sensitive and expressive new voice on today’s jazz scene, Dmitri Matheny is preaching smooth sounds without losing sight of the quality in music. Recommended.

Track Listing: Stardust; When Lights Are Low; Twilight World; Spring Skylight; Whisper, Muse; Geneva; Soca Nova; Corcovado; Saturn

Personnel: Dmitri Matheny- flugelhorn; Darrell Grant- piano; Bill Douglass- acoustic bass.

Record Label: Monarch Records
Style: Straight-ahead/Mainstream

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Date	Venue	Tickets
Jun02	Jazz Church West (peace Lutheran Church) Danville, CA
Jun14	Armando's Martinez, CA
Jun14	Armando's Martinez, CA
Jun16	Piedmont Piano Company Oakland, CA
Jun21	Old First Concerts San Francisco, CA
Jun29	Concert @ The JazzSchool Berkeley, CA
Jun30	Workshop @ The JazzSchool Berkeley, CA
Jul11	Christo's Salem, OR
Jul12	Ivories Jazz Lounge & Restaurant Portland, OR
Jul12	Workshop @ American Music Program directed by Thara Memory Portland, OR
Jul13	The Jazz Station Eugene, OR
Jul14	Oregon Coast Music Festival Charleston, OR
Jul16	Workshop @ Peninsula College Port Angeles, WA
Jul17	Tula's Seattle, WA
Jul18	Workshop @ Medler Studios Portland, OR
Jul19	Boxley's North Bend, WA
Jul20	33rd Annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival Portland, OR
Jul21	Jazz at the Chimes Oakland, CA
Jul24	Lobby Lounge, Fairmont Hotel San Jose, CA
Jul25	Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA
Jul26	Dizzy's San Diego, CA
Jul27	Vibrato Grill Jazz ... etc. Bel Air, CA
Aug02	Moody's Bistro, Bar & Beats Truckee, CA
Aug03	Moody's Bistro, Bar & Beats Truckee, CA
Aug15	Sacred Grounds Jazz Coffeehouse Scottsdale, AZ
Aug16	Chandler Center for the Arts Chandler, AZ
Aug18	Sedona Jazz at the Church Sedona, AZ
Aug22	Museum Hill Café Santa Fe, NM
Aug24	KTAOS Solar Center Taos, NM
Aug25	Seedboat Center for the Arts Silver City, NM
Sep18	Workshop @ Northland Preparatory Academy Flagstaff, AZ
Sep19	Workshop @ Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ
Sep21	Workshop @ Prescott Jazz Society Prescott Valley, AZ
Sep27	San Ramon Jazz Library San Ramon, CA
Sep28	Floyd Pellom's 57th Street Gallery (Oakland, CA) Oakland, CA
Sep29	The Red Poppy Art House San Francisco, CA
Oct30	Theater Works Peoria, AZ
Nov22	Workshop @ College of San Mateo San Mateo, CA
Dec04	Kerr Cultural Center Scottsdale, AZ
Dec05	Sacred Grounds Jazz Coffeehouse Scottsdale, AZ
Jan21	Westbrook Village Peoria, AZ
Mar01	The JazzSchool Berkeley, CA
Mar02	Workshop @ The Jazzschool Berkeley, CA
Apr21	Workshop @ Hillsdale College Hillsdale, MI
Apr25	Cliff Bell's Detroit, MI