Results for "Matt Gold"

Blood Moon

By Tony Barba

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Blood Moon; Hide Alerts; Rounding Up; Wishlist; Washed Up; The Hypnotist; Drifters; Monster; The Long Haul; Cut and Dry.

Imagined Sky

By Matt Gold

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Augusta Fairgrounds; Queen Anne; Crimes; Between the Four Seas; Truehearted; Dollarama; Always Starting Over; Petrichor; Bottom of the Barrel.

Blueprints Figure Two: New Designs

By Markus Rutz

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Passion Dance; East to West; Shipmates; A Cidade do Vento; Looking Out Windows; Simone; The Musicianer; Beatrice; Keppard’s Kerchief (Live).

Matt Gold: A Guitarist in Songwriter's Disguise

by Friedrich Kunzmann
September 10, 2020

Combining improvisational concepts with Americana aesthetics is one thing, but enveloping this blend in a songwriter approach is another story entirely. The first concept is common practice these days, the second however represents the unique character which the up and coming Chicago-based guitarist Matt Gold has to offer on his compelling debut effort, Imagined Sky (Whirlwind ...

Whirlwind Recordings: Celebrating 10 years

by Friedrich Kunzmann
May 15, 2020

This year London-based label Whirlwind Recordings is celebrating its 10th anniversary and looking back at a decade, during the course of which the label has grown to become an important brand in the jazz scene and beyond, with over 140 top-tier albums released under its name so far. The distinguished mark, which Whirlwind has established over ...

Tony Barba: Blood Moon

by Friedrich Kunzmann
April 12, 2020

Madison-based saxophonist Tony Barba is a sonic chameleon, able to wrap catchy melodic themes around a variety of different genres. His ear for melodies is on full display on his newest outing for the Midwestern label Shifting Paradigm Records. In interplay with Chicagoan guitarist Matt Gold and the Madison-based rhythm section of John Christensen on bass ...

Matt Gold

Matt Gold is a guitarist and composer based in Chicago, IL. His work pulls from diverse traditions of electric and acoustic music. Matt has given his guitar a good strum or two in venues across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has written music for films as well. His work has been praised for being “accessible, yet healthily unconstrained by genre and sure of its own identity” (UK Vibe) and for "combining the virtuosity and precision of a string quartet with the playfulness of small-group jazz" (Chicago Reader). In May 2020 Gold released his first solo record, Imagined Sky (Whirlwind Recordings), displaying his penchant for concise melody and a nuanced, exploratory palette of abstracted Americana

Antoine Berjeaut: Moving Cities

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
January 7, 2020

Moving Cities nasce dalla collaborazione tra il trombettista francese Antoine Berjeaut e il batterista e produttore chicagoano Makaya McCraven, entrambi esponenti di “rottura" e fra i più attivi delle proprie scene jazz di riferimento: Berjeaut ha portato una ventata d'aria fresca nel jazz di Francia grazie a una serie di progetti collettivi molto innovativi e a ...

People Are Fragile

By Ashley Daneman

Label: Flood Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: I Alone Love The Unseen In You; If I Knew Who I was; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; When You Break; Shake It All Down; Daddy's Gonna Die Soon; Deep River; My Man's Gone Now; The Feeling Of Heavy; Pictures In The Atmosphere; Did Anyone Ever Sow You A Lie?; Recall.

Nature Work: Nature Work

by Mark Corroto
July 13, 2019

Jason Stein and Greg Ward are two stalwart Chicago musicians who continually stretch boundaries and search for new experiences. Stein, a devotee of the bass clarinet, maintains two trios, Hearts & Minds (with Paul Giallorenzo and Chad Taylor) and Locksmith Isador (with Jason Roebke and Mike Pride), plus his quartet with Joshua Abrams, Keefe Jackson, and ...