Jazz Articles about Matt Parkinson

About Matt Parkinson

Album Review

Drawing influences from rock and folk alongside contemporary jazz, the Howl Quartet was formed in 2017 by Dan Smith, Pete Komor, Harry Brunt and Matt Parkinson, though their musical partnership predates the group's inception. These years of collaboration and shared performance experience have fostered an open and co-operative environment that serves as the ideal foundation for their contemplative and considered music. The quartet draws inspiration from Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl. Ginsberg was a central figure in the Beat ...

Album Review

Estraven: Ignored Advice

Read "Ignored Advice" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 14, 2022

South London band Estraven's debut album is a pleasure and a breath of fresh air: a novel chunk of acoustic jazz which avoids what has become, in 2022, the South London scene's default focus on grooves and dancefloors. Ignored Advice ploughs its own furrow. The young piano-less quartet is led by bassist and composer Chris Hyde-Harrison and completed by tenor saxophonist Duncan Eagles, drummer Matt Parkinson and French-born guitarist Alban Claret, who plays an electric instrument with ...