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Neil Mattson

Neil Mattson is local jazz and post-modern composer-guitarist residing in Portland OR. Neil was a featured composer for the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s 2012-13 season. His band, Trio Flux, fuses elements of free jazz and psychedelic rock to the delight of audiences across a wide spectrum of listening tastes. Neil’s solo guitar work is ambient, dreamy, and spacious. It can soothe and excite in its non-traditional use of space and texture.

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“Neil Mattson’s guitar riffs...the smoothest of smooth” —Rebecca Wilson, Portland Mercury

“There is something totally seductive about the sound coming out of Neil Mattson’s guitar” —Tom D’Antoni, Oregon Music News

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