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Matt Smiley

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Matt Smiley is a bassist, composer and educator who has performed in a variety of musical settings over the last fifteen years. He has a bachelor’s degree in music industry with a jazz studies minor from James Madison University, and a master’s of music in jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado. An avid and enthusiastic musician, Smiley has performed both nationally and internationally at universities throughout the country, and the Montreux, North Sea, and Montreal Jazz Festivals. Currently Matt resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he plays jazz weekly with the Subterraneans at Ace Gillett’s

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Malaby Reed Smiley Coulter: Continental Divide

Read "Continental Divide" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


A crackling energy permeates Continental Divide, as if the album itself straddles tectonic plates, with the music shifting and erupting underfoot like a geological tempest in full bloom. Saxophonist Tony Malaby and trumpeter Josh D. Reed, masters of controlled chaos, lead this exploratory quartet with raw yet precise lines amid urgent, reflective, and occasionally transcendent musings. ...

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Continental Divide

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2024
Track listing: Break Off; Variant; Dead Drift; Running Line; Anti-Reverse; Click Drag; Backlash; Hook Set; Slip Shot; Topaz; Hackle.

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Live at Nocturne

Label: Nocturne
Released: 2024
Track listing: Her Strength and Beauty; The Melody and Me; Slow Play; Our Walk; Night on the Mountain; Sun on the Snow; Jife.

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Ben Markley: Live at Nocturne

Read "Live at Nocturne" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Ben Markley's Live At Nocturne encapsulates a rare alchemy that emerges from nightly performances in an intimate collaborative setting. Over two uninterrupted months, Markley and his cohorts guitarist Steve Kovalcheck, alto saxophonist Will Swindler, bassists Domi Edson (tracks 1-5), Matt Smiley (tracks 6-7) and drummer Andy Wheeler, transformed Denver's Nocturne into a crucible for creativity that ...

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flourish

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. 2-4-1 (3) 7:31 2. Waiting (5) 10:43 3. Tunneling (6) 10:00

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Big City

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – Going Somewheres? 4:58 2 – A la Usual 2:15 3 – Upwind Cardboard Recycling Center 3:52 4 – Swingline Dancing (red) 2:12 5 – Different Pages 6:01 6 – Important Folk Here 5:57 7 – yeah! yeah!! yeah!!! 3:39 8 – Pocket Park 9:11

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Lost While Found

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – Swaying Power Lines 10:15 2 – Humidity 7:01 3 – Some Message? 9:14 4 – Squabble 8:46

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Business

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Here We Goes 10:04 2. Huh? 5:50 3. Melody Patterns 7:56 4. That Ending Though… 8:21 5. Attempted 7:35

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delicacies

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – No AC Apartment 7:16 2 – Satisfied People 2:50 3 – Accepting the Fact 6:49 4 – Cartoon Soundtracking 2 6:10 5 – An Organized Business 1:48 6 – The Imagined Commute 6:18 7 – Safari 3:19 8 – Hot Cows 6:16


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