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Reggie Watkins: Rivers

by Paul Rauch
March 29, 2025

Jazz on an international scale is actually just a network of smaller, local jazz scenes that in 2025 exist in virtually every nation on earth. Most of the music happens on the local scene, where the closest of musical alliances are formed. Trombonist Reggie Watkins has managed to take us to that sacred place on his fourth album as a leader. Rivers (BYNK, 2025). Needless to say, “Rivers" can refer to the geographic location of Watkins' adopted home ...

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Matt Parker Trio: Present Time

Read "Present Time" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 11, 2016

Following the well-deserved critical praise for his sextet debut, Worlds Put Together (BYNK Records, 2013), saxophonist/composer Matt Parker returns with a core trio and guests on Present Time. Former classmates from NYC's New School, bassist Alan Hampton and drummer Reggie Quinerly, join Parker on seven original compositions. One standard dating back to 1930 (and Louis Armstrong's first significant recording) along with a previously unrecorded Charles Mingus composition fill out the program.Parker is a Florida native now residing in ...

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Matt Parker: Worlds Put Together

Read "Worlds Put Together" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 25, 2013

Genre bending saxophonist Matt Parker's debut album, Worlds Put Together, is a collection of mostly short pieces that crackle with originality and are imbued with an urgent and imaginative spontaneity. These are not mere sketches for expanded and more developed future compositions. They are conceptually crystalized, complete yet free-flowing and raw works that pack a visceral and intellectual punch.The atmospheric “Lists," for instance, opens with bassist Alan Hampton's mystical and resonant bowing over drummer Reggie Quinerly's intriguingly dark ...

Album Review

Matt Parker: Worlds Put Together

Read "Worlds Put Together" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 26, 2013

Saxophonist Matt Parker is an old soul. You can hear that in his music. On his debut release Worlds Put Together, he channels Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Dexter Gordon. It's just that this jazz geezer happens to be 33 years old.Like Lester Young, he creates music without typecasting it as “jazz." It's just that his enunciation, inflection and accent are dead giveaways that mark him as a jazzman.Parker's music recalls the period of the late-1960s ...