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Matt Wilson's Arts And Crafts: An Attitude For Gratitude

Read "An Attitude For Gratitude" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Drummer Matt Wilson may be the supreme human confluence of technique, swing, spirit, humor and musicality. Over the past 20 years, Wilson has proven to be one of a select few that can balance an inside/outside aesthetic, often within a single piece of music. He has helped shape the music of Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Either/Orchestra, Lee Konitz, Denny Zeitlin and many others, but his own body of recorded work highlights his unique personality and musical perspective better than any ...

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Interview

Matt Wilson: Have Drums, Will Travel

Read "Matt Wilson: Have Drums, Will Travel" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Charlie Haden, Lee Konitz, Ted Nash and many, many others. As for legends, he's played with Herbie Hancock, Dewey Redman, Andrew Hill, ...

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Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O

Read "Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Niente coretti sdolcinati di atmosfera natalizia, come il titolo e la grafica del CD lascerebbero supporre. Le quattordici tracce di questo Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O confermano quanto Matt Wilson sia uno dei jazzisti più duttili e zigzaganti dell'odierno panorama statunitense. Il suo trio è qui in cattedra per spiegare come e cosa dovrebbero essere il jazz e l'arte in genere: sfuggire dalle convenzioni, incamminarsi verso nuove strade, sorprendere con inattese soluzioni. È un disco che pare richiamare alla perfezione l'idea ...

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Matt Wilson Quartet: That's Gonna Leave a Mark

Read "That's Gonna Leave a Mark" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Al primo ascolto di That's Gonna Leave a Mark, di quell'intelligentissimo (e divertente, come possono essere divertenti e argute le persone molto intelligenti) musicista che è Matt Wilson, il parallelo con il quartetto di Ornette Coleman viene sin troppo facile nell'apparente, quasi infantile accessibilità di certi temi, nel gusto per l'improvvisazione collettiva, nel recupero ironicamente sbilenco del vocabolario boppistico e di certi riff. Come spesso accade, l'apparenza inganna, e non perché l'influenza di Coleman non sia avvertibile in queste brevi ...

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Opinion

Matt Wilson: Leaving a Mark

Read "Matt Wilson: Leaving a Mark" reviewed by Matt Wilson


Often times just being in the right place at the right time will provide us with moments that inspire us for a lifetime. We should all be grateful for the moments where someone has done or said something that leaves a mark on our lives. Here are five “leave a mark" moments in my musical life I would like to share. As a kid, I remember seeing a profile of Count Basie on 60 Minutes. I ...

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Album Review

The Matt Wilson Quartet: That's Gonna Leave A Mark

Read "That's Gonna Leave A Mark" reviewed by George Kanzler


A drummer whose creativity, drive, dedication and infectious joy have garnered him high honors from fellow musicians and critics alike, Matt Wilson is also a perspicacious and activist bandleader. The Matt Wilson Quartet--alto and tenor saxophones doubling clarinets, bass and drums--is raucous, rambunctious and high energy. Among piano-less quartets, it's more in the tradition of Ornette Coleman, Max Roach and Charles Mingus than Gerry Mulligan or Gary Burton. The similarities with Coleman's two-sax quartet that paired him ...

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Matt Wilson's Arts And Crafts: The Scenic Route

Read "The Scenic Route" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Jazz piacevole e godibile, ma discontinuo negli esiti e con qualche caduta di gusto. Si potrebbe sintetizzare così la più recente produzione discografica del pur eccellente batterista Matt Wilson: solista notevole ma arrangiatore non molto fantasioso. Alti ma anche bassi in questo percorso, a tratti ben congegnato dal leader con piglio sicuro e la disinvoltura da abile organizzatori di suoni. Tra soluzioni swinganti e rimandi più tipici al jazz più infuocato, le musiche del disco si snodano con l’intenzione di ...


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