Results for "Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts"

Video

The Bat

Featuring the music of Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts
Duration: 8:10
February 13, 2012

Pat Metheny's "The Bat," performed by drummer Matt Wilson and his Arts & Crafts group at the 2007 Elmhurst Jazz Festival. Arts & Craft's latest release is An Attitude for Gratitude (Palmetto, 2012), with keyboardist Gary Versace, bassist Martin Wind and trumpeter Terell Stafford, but this video features the group's original bassist, Dennis Irwin, who sadly passed away in 2008.

Video

The Scenic Route

Featuring the music of Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts
Duration: 10:00
April 28, 2008

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - The Scenic Route live at the 2007 Elmhurst Jazz Festival. Matt Wilson, drums; Terell Stafford, trumpet; Gary Versace, hammond b3; Dennis Irwin, bass

Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: The Scenic Route

by Troy Collins
January 28, 2007

Drummer Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts ensemble has followed a somewhat more mainstream path than some of his previous efforts. With each release, Wilson has been slowly expanding the concept of this unconventional quartet with an eclectic and exploratory ear. Arts & Crafts' third album on Palmetto Records, The Scenic Route, is as varied and rewarding ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: The Scenic Route

by Jim Santella
January 17, 2007

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts swings in a collective manner with a comfortable fit that speaks from the jazz tradition, while driving with soulful authority. Trumpeter Terell Stafford gives Wilson an eloquent lyrical voice that he backs with propulsive rhythms. Pianist and organist Gary Versace gives this powerful quartet its various moods, which bassist Dennis Irwin ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What's Happening)

by Eric J. Iannelli
November 20, 2004

Wake Up! (To What's Happening) is drummer Matt Wilson's first album after realizing, thanks to the unintentional example set by his children, that he'd been going about things all wrong. Well, not wrong, exactly--just differently. “The more I play improvised music," he writes in the closest thing to an explanatory preface, “the less I ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What's Happening)

by Ken Franckling
October 2, 2004

"Arts & Crafts" is the perfect name for versatile drummer Matt Wilson's band for this session. For the music they make is indeed an art--and it involves much musical craft. And then there's the title of this, the band's second recording. A title like Wake Up! (To What's Happening) could lead one to guess that Wilson ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What

by Mark Sabbatini
September 9, 2004

Open-minded and unselfish. Good moral qualities, but are they good musical ones as well? In drummer Matt Wilson's case, the answer is mostly yes on his latest album Wake Up! (To What's Happening) , reuniting the Arts And Crafts quartet that released a relatively straight-ahead album by that name in '01. Wilson, an exceptional ...