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Mat Walerian

Born: July 2, 1984

Mat Walerian is a jazz saxophonist and woodwind player (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano clarinet, flute), composer and bandleader who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. His studies were mostly focused on eastern philosophy and Japanese culture. With the exception of a few lessons he is self – taught musician, occasionally taking lessons from acknowledged masters Matthew Shipp and Hamid Drake, lessons which he has cited as being crucial to his development. His style is firmly in the mainstream of modern jazz and improvised music, somewhere around hard free bop with a tribute to the atonal avant-garde heritage

This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2017
Track listing: Lesson; The Breakfast Club Day 1; This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People; The Breakfast Club Day 2; Peace and Respect.

This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People

By Matthew Shipp

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2017

Toxic: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People

by Matthew Aquiline
May 29, 2017

Polish multi-instrumentalist Mat Walerian is on the verge of reserving his seat in the pantheon of groundbreaking hornmen who recorded for the late Bernard Stollman's storied ESP-Disk' label. Not as frenetic as Frank Wright, nor as strident as Sonny Simmons, Walerian instead boasts a singular approach that binds Eastern influence and blues sensibility with fluent, legato ...