Jazz Articles about Matt Anderson

About Matt Anderson

Album Review

Matt Anderson: Live at Leeds Jazz Festival

Read "Live at Leeds Jazz Festival" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
March 18, 2024

To appreciate the synergy and spirit of a band it often pays to hear them play live. The quality of their playing and their abilities to interact are laid bare. Releasing their first live recording, the Matt Anderson Quartet can do so confidently having spent nearly a decade touring and recording together. Live at Leeds Jazz Festival was made at HEART in Headingly as part of the 2023 Leeds Jazz Festival. It features two tracks from the band's ...

Album Review

Matt Anderson Quartet: The Town and the City

Read "The Town and the City" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 16, 2022

Saxophonist Matt Anderson grew up on the North Yorkshire Moors, in the north of England, and is now based in London where he teaches junior jazz ensembles at the Royal Academy of Music. The Town and the City is his third album—the title a nod to his years in the small towns and villages of the Moors, and his later move to the capital— and the second to feature his quartet of pianist Alberto Palau, bassist Will Harris and drummer ...

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