Jazz Articles about Matt Bauder

About Matt Bauder

Multiple Reviews

The saxophone continues to be one of the cornerstone instruments of jazz. Here are three recent recordings that demonstrate different approaches to the use of saxophones in the music. Jordan Pettay First Fruit Outside In Music 2019 Jordan Pettay is a young Julliard graduate who makes her debut recording here, playing alto and soprano. Spirituality is a big part of her music and she plays several hymns during the set in ...

Album Review

Matt Bauder And Day In Pictures: Nightshades

Read "Nightshades" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 20, 2014

The lesson learned from listening to saxophonist Matt Bauder's second Day In Pictures release Nightshades is that you would never want to take a blindfold listening test with him. He'd steal your records. The quintet from his 2010 self-titled release on Clean Feed remains intact, with the exception that Angelica Sanchez was replaced by pianist Kris Davis. Otherwise, the musicians: Nate Wooley (trumpet), Jason Ajemian (bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums) nourish Bauder's vision that innovation in jazz in ...

Album Review

Matt Bauder And Day In Pictures: Nightshades

Read "Nightshades" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 20, 2014

Saxophonist Matt Bauder was mentored by celebrated avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton and has been a busy and quite productive artist on numerous jazz fronts. As a topnotch session man and leader, Bauder's resume intimates fruitful affiliations with musicians who are at the forefront of the progressive jazz and avant-garde sectors. Fueled by an all-star lineup, Nightshades is the saxophonist's second solo effort for Portugal-based Clean Feed Records, and is a program that shifts between mainstream jazz and ...

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Album Review

Matt Bauder: Day In Pictures

Read "Day In Pictures" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
January 5, 2011

Day In Pictures is Matt Bauder's first traditional jazz recording as the leader of a stellar acoustic quintet. Far from a debut, the young Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist already has a number of eclectic releases to his name, but none delve as far into the nuances of jazz tradition as this refined platter. His previous albums expand on his work as a sideman to adventurous peers like Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Rob Mazurek, including his electro-acoustic debut, Weary Already Of ...

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Matt Bauder: Paper Gardens

Read "Paper Gardens" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 20, 2010

The album title, Paper Gardens, parallels saxophonist Matt Bauder's work for an architecture firm, concerning the design of a new garden for an elementary school. Upon his initial visit, he observed construction paper models of the proposed garden, which served as the basis for this curiously interesting, avant-garde, chamber-jazz foray. Here, Bauder forges a homogenous program, touching upon minimalism and sound-sculpting motifs to complement the improvisational opuses interspersed at key intervals. Partly constructed on horn- and string-based extended ...

Album Review

Matt Bauder: Paper Gardens

Read "Paper Gardens" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 5, 2010

Ha suonato, fra i tanti, con Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Rob Mazurek, Roscoe Mitchell, mentre fra le innumerevoli influenze cita, alla spicciolata (e anche qui fra tante altre), Morton Feldman, Archie Shepp, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Sonny Rollins, John Cage, Jimmy Giuffre, Lester Young, Lester Bowie, David Bowie, Lenny Tristano, Albert Ayler, Edgard Varèse, Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, Lee Konitz. E' il sax/clarinettista newyorchese Matt Bauer, firmatario di questo strano album, di una coerenza stringente quanto, per altri versi, ...

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In Former Times: Memorize the Sky

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 5, 2008

Le definizioni rilegano un’opera dentro uno spazio limitato, è vero, ma spesso fungono da bussola al potenziale pubblico. Fatta questa doverosa premessa, questo disco rientra nella discografia post Free; come ci rientri e con quali risultati è motivo di analisi. Il trio, che viene dal Michigan, dalla provincia americana lontana dalle capitali del jazz moderno e d’avanguardia, non sceglie infatti la via del rito orgiastico-liberatorio, che suona come espressione di un disagio generazionale, o di una musica che esploda in ...