Jazz Articles about Matt Owens

Matt Owens: The Aviators' Ball

by Phil Barnes
May 12, 2015

From the vibrant Manchester jazz scene that gave us the likes of Matthew Halsall, Nat Birchall and GoGo Penguin comes this eclectic beauty from Matt Owens. Much of the album was written in response to a commission from the Manchester Jazz Festival for a 'jazz quartet combined with wind quintet and tuned percussion' -a wide ranging brief that has plenty to enthral the more open-minded music lover. Taking the melodic spirit of late 1960s Beach Boys LP “Friends," ...