Jazz Articles about Matthieu Mazué

About Matthieu Mazué

Album Review

Matthieu Mazué: Turn of Events

Read "Turn of Events" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 12, 2026

In layman's terms, Turn of Events, French pianist Matthieu Mazué's 577 Records trio debut with fellow arsonists--Francisco Mela and trumpeter Diego Hedez--is a head rush. An old-fashioned, split-minute, play-by-play head rush that gives you a bit of vertigo at first. Which is really very cool and okay, because in this flood-the-zone environment, a bit of vertigo just might reveal an escape route: an off-ramp from the malaise of monotony we inhabit to an on-ramp of festival and wonder.

Radio & Podcasts

Shipp/Parker/Dickey, Florian Arbenz, Matthieu Mazué & Ghasem Batamuntu

by Maurice Hogue
November 17, 2021

A mixed bag this time around on One Man's Jazz, highlighted by new releases from the excellent trio of Matthew Shipp (piano), William Parker (bass) and Whit Dickey (drums), trios from Switzerland led by pianist Matthieu Mazué and drummer Florian Arbenz, the Belgian trio of guitarist Manu Codjia, bassist Giuseppe Millaci & and drummer Lieven Venken, the guitar/drums duo of Dan Phillips and Hamid Drake, and American ex-pat saxophonist Ghasem Batamuntu.Playlist Florian Arbenz “Freedom Jazz Dance" from Conversation ...