Jazz Articles about Matt Haimovitz

About Matt Haimovitz

Album Review

Matt Haimovitz: Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945 – 2014)

Read "Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945 – 2014)" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 19, 2015

The solo cello repertoire is dominated completely by Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV 1007-1012. While there exists much more solo cello music than this, the majority of commercial media releases are of Bach's mountain. So, what a about a sampler of solo cello music other than Bach? Matt Haimovitz provides us exactly that with Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-- 2014). Rather than one more prim exposition of the Suites or an avant-garde exploration of the ...

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Interview

Matt Haimovitz: Rare Birds

by Ian Patterson
March 16, 2011

It's a fairly audacious idea for a cello octet to interpret the music of jazz icons such as bassist Charles Mingus, trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, never mind the Mahavishnu Orchestra, but clearly, as seen on the compelling Meeting of the Spirits, cellist Matt Haimovitz loves a challenge. Challenge is something he's used to, since debuting at the age of 13 as soloist with the Israeli Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. For Haimovitz, one of the biggest challenges ...