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Matt Penman
Matt Penman hails from Auckland, New Zealand where he started playing bass at the age of 14. A scholarship from Berklee saw him move to the States in 1994 and to New York soon after that where he maintains a busy performing, recording and teaching schedule.
He is currently an established member of the SFJazz Collective, an 8-piece composer’s collective devoted to presenting the original works of its members as well as arrangements by the band of a different jazz great’s work every year. The Collective is in its sixth year and currently features Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas and Stefon Harris
Sensual
By Rachel Z
Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Save My Soul; What I Fear; Bodhisattva; Forgive Me; What About the Kids; Inamorata;
Shepard’s Lullaby; Sensual; These Days.
Sonic River
Label: Sonic River Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: This Is Water; After the Rain; Mr. Vertigo; Sonic River; Fugue Y; Where Did You Sleep Last Night?; The Panther; Silencio; Pinball; Korean Chant; Dark Horse.
Mino Cinélu at The Presidio Theatre
by Steven Roby
Mino Cinélu Presidio Theatre Mino 4 Miles San Francisco, CA September 6, 2025 The room begins with absence--no band, no chatter--just a white gauze curtain hanging like a flag with no country. A looped rhythm creeps in from the edges, dry and sandy, like shoes on stone. Then the words ...
Jamie Baum: These Are Her Times
by Dean Nardi
Jamie Baum is a world-class composer as well as flutist, who smoothly balances woodwinds with horns, guitar, bass, piano and drums so that they are equals. Her compositions can remind you of a Gil Evans arrangement with several decades of development added to create a thoroughly modern milieu. She mixes high-energy with ballads and Western foundations ...
Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River
by Vic Albani
Bavarese trapiantato a Brooklyn da quasi un ventennio, Tobias Meinhart è un altro dei tanti nomi pressoché sconosciuti alle nostre latitudini. Mescolando il groove jazz con la narrazione poetica il sassofonista e flautista è da anni una presenza costante della scena newyorkese new mainstream. Come insegnano le note relative a questo suo nuovo ...
Ornette Coleman's and Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman" — A Disambiguation
by Artur Moral
Reality is filled with confusion and misunderstandings; some are suggestive or creative, while others are disappointing or, worse, malicious. The jazz world is no stranger to the first type: specific compositions are often confused or misidentified as if they were the same. Usually, this happens because of similar melodies or titles that are sometimes identical. This ...
Billy Childs Quartet at the Newman Center
by Geoff Anderson
Billy Childs Quartet Newman Center Denver, CO February 1, 2025 Billy Childs is equally at home in both the jazz and classical worlds. He has worked with prestigious ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and served as president of Chamber Music America, among ...
Jamie Baum: Redefining Jazz with Poetry and Global Sounds
by Steven Roby
When Jamie Baum steps onto the stage, flute in hand, she transforms into a storyteller, weaving melodies and rhythms that feel like a conversation with the world. Her latest album, What Times Are These, is more than music; it's an exploration of poetry, culture, and the human condition. As a guest on the Backstage Bay Area ...
III
By Nir Felder
Label: La Reserve
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mallets; Cold Heaven; Longest Star; Era's End; Dream; Sea of Miracles; Revival.
