Jazz Articles about Matty Harris

About Matty Harris

Album Review

Laureatosi al California Institute of the Arts, il trentenne sassofonista Matty Harris pubblica il secondo disco del suo Double Septet, un organico d'avanguardia comprendente il settantenne Vinny Golia -ancora in gran forma -e validi strumentisti operanti in California. L'organico ha debuttato nel 2013 con l'album Songs e quasi gli stessi componenti. Negli anni precedenti, a partire dal 2010, ha registrato tre dischi live col suo giovane quartetto. Durante gli studi al college (tra i suoi insegnanti di strumento ...

Album Review

Matty Harris: Double Septet

Read "Double Septet" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 10, 2016

Multi-reedman Matty Harris' double septet is a large ensemble endeavor, featuring many Los Angeles artists, including venerable woodwind ace Vinny Golia for a program brimming with numerous horns-based convergences, soulful proclamations, subtle melodic inventions and pieces often designed with embryonic buildups and burgeoning choruses. Other movements enact notions of a calm-before-the-storm stylization amid interweaving passages and accents. Harris and associates primarily reside on the outside realm of jazz, but it is not chaotic by any stretch. The band toggles between ...