Matt Garrison

Ben Basile: Benergy

by Kyle Simpler
July 25, 2025

Musical performances often showcase more than just an artist's talent. Whenever musicians play, the audience gets hints at their influences as well, because it is not often easy to conceal the impact of musicians who have helped shape the sound. In many cases, the influences are specific players the artist studied while earning the craft. However, some players draw from a broader palette, and such is the case with Ben Basile. With Benergy, bassist and composer ...

Matt Garrison: Patchwork

by Dan Bilawsky
May 21, 2014

Instead of simply homing in on one specific musical coordinate, saxophonist Matt Garrison decided to widen his focus and hit a few different targets with his third album. The aptly-titled Patchwork finds him looking toward “initial musical influence, educational influences, and current outcomes." It's a collection of Garrison's personalized yesterday-meets-today musical scenarios. It's hard to know whether Patchwork should be defined as a vocal record with strong instrumental appeal or an instrumental album with a vocalist out ...

Matt Garrison - Saxophone: Blood Songs

by Edward Blanco
June 24, 2012

Presenting a primarily original repertoire of sparkling modern jazz, New York saxophonist Matt Garrison follows up his critically acclaimed debut, Familiar Places (DCLEF, 2011), with Blood Songs, an audacious musical tribute to his loving parents. With the exception of producer/trombonist Michael Dease, Garrison assembles a new all-star list of players, including veterans like saxophonist Eric Alexander and trumpeter Greg Gisbert, who mix it up well with young, up-and-coming stars including pianist Roy Assaf and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr.The ...

Matt Garrison: Shapeshifter

by Phil DiPietro
August 12, 2004

In Y2K, Bass Player Magazine pronounced Matthew Garrison's debut as having “raised the bar" for electric bass players (in an article by Chris Jisi, who recently wrote the book on modern electric bass). What next, then? Fitting in this Olympic year, Garrison steps back from the bar, raises it a foot, challenges himself to make it over and succeeds on every level, turning in the greatest solo record by an electric bassist in the post-Jaco era.Not merely a ...

Matt Garrison Jumps up the JazzWeek Chart To #13

Source: Kari-On Productions
September 8, 2010

Garrison's debut CD Familiar places is quickly winning over listener's at jazz radio. Charting on 3 of the national jazz radio charts, Jazzweek, CMJ & RMR, Garrison this weeks lands at #13 on the Jazzweek jazz radio chart. A great way to kick off the month of September.We took some time out to get into the mind of this wonderfully talented player and got the opportunity to have him describe his latest release in his own words. When I was ...
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Guitarist Alex Machacek, Bassist Matt Garrison and Drummer Jeff Sipe Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
October 29, 2007

Alex Machacek, Matt Garrison and Jeff Sipe have been responsible for some of the greatest moments in electric jazz since the turn of the new millennium.

So too, has Abstract Logix, the brainchild of Souvik Dutta, changed the landscape for this music since 2005, growing from a mere storefront into label and clearinghouse, to the point that the name is now synonymous with what fusion has become. With the release of the Machacek/Sipe/Garrison collaboration, Improvision (2007), comes another transformation; Dutta ...
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Matt Garrison Announces Live Performance /DVD Shoot

Source: All About Jazz
November 28, 2003

Featuring an all-star jazz and fusion line-up of: MATTHEW GARRISON (electric bass), ARTO TUNCBOYACIAN (percussion, vocals), GENE LAKE (drums), JIM BEARD (keyboards), ADAM ROGERS (guitar), SCOTT KINSEY (keyboards), JOJO MAYER (drums)

In conjunction, this is a rare opportunity to participate in the project as a member of a live studio audience. TIME: SUNDAY DECEMBER 7 2003 @ 5 pm Doors open @4:30 pm

LOCATION: SOUND ON SOUND RECORDING,322 WEST 45 STREET, NYC 10036 STUDIO A ( GROUND FLOOR) ...
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Bassist Matt Garrison announces April residency at New York's IZZY Bar

Source: All About Jazz

Electric bassist Matt Garrison is pleased to announce his April residency at the Thursday night spot at New York City hotspot the Izzy Bar. Put another way, Matt and crew will be playing every Thursday in April!

That's April 5, 12, 19, 26 11pm-1am

There is also a gig on April 21st in an earlier timeslot, 9-10:30

Matt intends to compile the best of the recordings from these gigs for release as his second solo CD!

The izzy is located ...
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