Jazz Articles about Matt Clark

About Matt Clark

Album Review

MC3, a British trio led by guitarist Matt Clark, explores variations on the tradition of British free improvisation which have a more user-friendly form than normally heard in this music. That is largely due to Clark himself, who mostly plays twangy chords and melodic riffs instead of the disruptive stabs and skronks favored by pioneering British free musicians such as guitarist Derek Bailey. Clark's calm strumming balances out the unpredictability of trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe who produces sputters, growls, leaky whispers ...

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MC3: Sounds of the City

Read "Sounds of the City" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
June 6, 2022

MC3 is the abbreviated name of the Matt Clark Trio, the current line-up of which is Clark on guitar, Charlotte Keeffe on trumpet or flugelhorn and James Edmunds on drums. A 2021 incarnation comprised Clark on guitar plus Julian Nicholas on saxophone and Darren Beckett on drums, while a self-produced 2020 MC3 album, North Of No South only credited Clark as he created it all in his home studio during lockdown. Prior to the current trio, its three members were ...

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Matt Clark Three: One From Brooklyn

Read "One From Brooklyn" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 25, 2021

UK guitarist Matt Clark is a seasoned world traveler. In the pandemic year of 2020, he did not let the lockdown keep him from peregrination. He knows that to travel fast, you must travel light. Meaning without baggage, and this trio recording, One From Brooklyn, crosses the Atlantic without leaving his home studio. Clark, a musical omnivore has dabbled in psychedelic rock with Cardboard, new wave eclecticism of CAAW, solo electric music with The Electric Orange and acoustic sounds with ...

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Take Five with Matt Clark

by AAJ Staff
April 22, 2021

Meet Matt Clark I'm a guitarist and composer from Brighton, England. My career has spanned 35 years, encompassing genres as broad as jazz, blues, alternative, experimental, and electronic music. The year of COVID-19 and lockdown has been both testing and inspiring. Lack of live music and in-person collaboration has meant rethinking my musical output. I'm currently working under the moniker “Matt Clark Three," a primarily solo project of jazz-influenced grooves combining lo-fi loops and samples with avant-garde jazz. ...

Album Review

MC3: North Of No South

Read "North Of No South" reviewed by Jordan Penney

by Jordan Penney
August 24, 2020

"New York is cold, but I like where I'm living," Leonard Cohen sang on “Famous Blue Raincoat," “There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening." That sentiment is similar to what is laid down on North of No South, one of two MC3 2020 releases. The other is Noisy City (Self Produced) from the Matt Clark Three. It is a concept record, according to the promotional material, “a collection of songs loosely based around an imaginary heist in Brighton, ...