Jazz Articles about Matt Penman

About Matt Penman

Album Review

Sophie Duner Quartet: The Rain in Spain

Read "The Rain in Spain" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 8, 2007

La risposta della CIMP e di Bob Rush alla Blue Note e Norah Jones si chiama Sophie Duner! Dopo tanto free e improv arriva sulla CIMP un personaggio speciale con una propria visione musicale al di là dei generi: una cantante svedese vicina alla quarantina e che fino adesso non aveva mai inciso. Forse è una battuta, forse no, fatto sta che dopo un primo approccio nel 1996, che non aveva convinto il produttore americano, Sophie Duner non si perse ...

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Album Review

Matt Penman: The Unquiet

Read "The Unquiet" reviewed by Phil DiPietro

by Phil DiPietro
August 14, 2002

Either Matt Penman wrote his own bio or paid a comedian friend (who knows a thing or two about the jazz world) to write it for him. It contains the following gems that lend humorous light to the how and why he eventually grew up to be a beautifully introspective, reflective composer, to wit: “The introduction by an insistent school teacher of Jazz music into the mix was of course life-altering, as now there was a legitimate reason to not ...