Jazz Articles about Matt Ulery

About Matt Ulery

Album Review

A unique blend of traditional jazz, classical, Eastern European folk, and modern idioms, Mat Ulery's By A little Light is steeped in a melancholic grace and shadowy beauty that provides the two-disc set its unifying force. Throughout, Ulery has chosen detail and the oblique over the grandiose to etch his dusky scenes and portraits that seem to capture discreet emotional moments the way master photographers can distill vast meaning within a single frame.Bespeaking Ulery's consistency of approach there ...

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Album Review

Matt Ulery's Loom: Flora.Fauna.Fervor

Read "Flora.Fauna.Fervor" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 28, 2010

The music on Flora.Fauna.Fervor might be dubbed episodic, if not for the fact that each new idea steadily evolves from what came before. Bassist Matt Ulery uses kaleidoscopic compositional methods that develop gradually, yet travel to wide-ranging places and often return home to roost. Endless permutations of instrumental combinations and stylistic possibilities are explored, with Ulery's stellar septet pulling the puppet strings and Ulery building the puppets. While this music employs two horn players that could easily ...