Jazz Articles about Matthew Mitchell

About Matthew Mitchell

Instrument: Guitar

Album Review

Matthew Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace

Read "A Pouting Grimace" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
October 15, 2017

A regular member of Tim Berne's Snakeoil and the Dave Douglas Quintet, pianist/keyboardist/composer Matt Mitchell has recently appeared on Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls (ACT Music, 2015) and Jonathan Finlayson's Moving Still (Pi Recordings, 2016). Mitchell has worked with a broad array of top-name artists including Steve Coleman, John Hollenbeck and Mario Pavone. Mitchell is a chameleon, able to take on completely different musical personas across of fast array of situations. His own Vista Accumulation (Pi Recordings, 2015) was one of ...

Album Review

Matthew Mitchell & Duncan Haynes: The Urban Choreographic

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 12, 2006

Matthew Mitchell e Duncan Haynes sono due giovani improvvisatori neozelandesi con esperienze variegate ed un CD brillantemente recensito alle spalle. Il primo, chitarrista, è un gran esploratore delle possibilità offerte dall’elettronica oltre che profondo conoscitore di musica balcanica, il secondo, pianista, è da qualche anno brillantemente inserito nella scena underground londinese. Urban Choreographic, secondo CD pubblicato dalla Leo Records, è un significativo spaccato della loro visione musicale, ispirata alle contraddizioni presenti in una qualsiasi metropoli, contraddittorio contenitore di gioie e ...