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Matt Greenwood: Daybreak

by Dan McClenaghan
March 17, 2026

Writing about guitarist Matt Greenwood's debut album, Atlas (Self-Produced, 2023), one All About Jazz reviewer wrote, “Expect a great deal more from Matt Greenwood." The Zimbabwe-born artist begins the fulfillment of those expectations with his sophomore outing, Daybreak, moving forward on the sweeping luminosity and atmospheric world-building of his debut. Ambient textures, sometimes subtle and sometimes overt, paint spacious backdrops for eight off Greenwood's engaging compositions, plus his take on Claude Debussy's “La Damoiselle Élue." As it was ...