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Matt Renzi

Multi-reedist Matt Renzi has been performing professionally for the past 20 years at international jazz festivals and music venues worldwide. For the past decade, he has been recognized multiple times by jazz organizations in Italy, Spain, Belgium, India and Israel as well as in the United States for his advanced concepts in spontaneous group composition and collective improvisation with The Matt Renzi Trio. He holds a Bachelor’s in Music (Performance) from the Berklee College of Music and Master’s in Arts (Classical Composition) from San Francisco State University. Some of his teachers include Joe Henderson and South Indian Vocalist R.A

The Skipper and Mike Clark

By Daggerboard

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Desierto de Tabernas; Changing Emphasis; Tanzanian Skies; Runnin' Into One; Street Sheik; Brother Ranelin; Tranquil Blue; A Pride in the Prairie; Free Lancer; Ruaha Daybreak.

Daggerboard: The Skipper and Mike Clark

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2026

The rhythm section--more specifically, bassist Henry “The Skipper" Franklin and drummer Mike Clark--is front and center on the fourth recording by San Francisco Bay-area Daggerboard, the brainchild of trumpeter Erik Jekabson and percussionist Gregory Howe, who have enlisted a large array of supporting actors to help refine and sharpen their unique musical vision. That ...

Breakthrough

By Erik Jekabson

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 1); Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 2); The Whisperer; A Centered Vibe; Speedway Meadow; Sun on the Keys; Above the Clouds; El Don; Washington as a Surveyor; Into the Jungle (Pt. 1); Into the Jungle (Pt. 2); Into the Jungle (Pt. 3); Sunset on the Keys

Matt Renzi: Presenza

by Dan McClenaghan
March 15, 2025

On Presenza, reedmanMatt Renzi and his new quartet--the first one featuring a piano--opens with an audacious burst of sound. The tune, “Loving Kindness," one of nine Renzi originals featured here, sounds as if the saxophonist and his quartet mates are serious about the subject, crafting a high-octane burner that takes no prisoners. Renzie tears it up, ...

New Year

March 15, 2025

Album: Presenza
By Matt Renzi
Label: Three P's Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 9:46

Presenza

By Matt Renzi

Label: Three P's Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Loving Kindness; Quintessence; New Year; Last Saturday; Presence; Remembrance; Con Sapore; Song of Hope; Your Beautiful Light Will Shine Forever.

Federica Michisanti Trioness al Pinocchio di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
March 11, 2024

Firenze Pinocchio Live Jazz 10.2.2024 Sulla scia dello strepitoso successo tributatole dalla stampa specializzata con la triplice vittoria nel Top Jazz 2023, Federica Michisanti si è presentata per la prima volta assoluta sul palco fiorentino del Pinocchio e lo ha fatto con una formazione inedita, evoluzione del suo Trioness, ma con il ...

In The Rain Shadow

By Mark Vickness

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: High Desert; The Gorge; Alluvial Fans; Stillness (for Will); Roadrunner; Rupak (for Ty); Cloud Shadows; On the Cliffs of Mohr; In The Rain Shadow.

Matt Renzi: Arm-Sized Legging

by Jack Bowers
September 5, 2020

Arm-Sized Legging, saxophonist Matt Renzi's sixth album as leader, features his Cello Quartet, basically a piano-less jazz trio with cello added, for what purpose it is hard to ascertain. Cellos aren't normally associated with jazz—as some would argue, for good reason—and this session does little to further their cause. Yes, the cello does add another “voice," ...