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Romance Language
Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Romance Language; Never Blue; Sonrisa; Cambios; Si Bon; Después de Las Lágrimas; El Viaje; Romance Language; Otro; El Jardín de la Vida.
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Matt Panayides
Matt Panayides is a jazz guitarist and composer based in the New York City area whose music blends lyrical improvisation, dynamic interplay, and deeply expressive original compositions. Drawing inspiration from guitar greats like Jim Hall, John Scofield, Wes Montgomery, and Joni Mitchell, he has developed a distinctive voice that balances melodic sensitivity with harmonic sophistication. Panayides is a regular presence on the New York jazz scene, leading his own groups and collaborating with many of the city’s top musicians.
His discography includes several acclaimed recordings on the Pacific Coast Jazz label, including Field Theory (2021), Conduits (2015), and Tapestries of Song (2011), as well as the trio album With Eyes Closed (2024) featuring bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Anthony Pinciotti. His latest project, Present Echoes (forthcoming in 2026), showcases new original music for quartet with Rich Perry on tenor saxophone, Steve LaSpina on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums, exploring themes of reflection, resistance, and renewal.
Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language
by Richard J Salvucci
Over 60 years ago, the original television series, The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling, CBS, 1959-64), had an unusually memorable episode. Called “Passage for a Trumpet," it featured Jack Klugman, alcoholic, down on his luck and suicidal. A trumpet player named Joey Crown uttered the memorable line, “This horn is half my language." OK. No spoiler. It ...
Matt Panayides: With Eyes Closed
by Richard J Salvucci
This is a charming recording: reflective, tranquil and built around the compositions of some of the most distinguished players and composers of what ought to be called the American Jazz Songbook. Here you have music written by Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton and Chick Corea, to name only the figures in one strain. ...
With Eyes Closed
Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing: Simone; Straight Up And Down; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Hindsight; Nefertiti; Serenity; Ju Ju; Mode
for Joe; Moon River; The Moontrane; Darn That Dream.
Live at the Last Hotel
By John Covelli
Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Lobby; Meeting Friends; Traffic Both Ways; Valet Rally; Standin’ Up Against the Wall;
Hello Robin; Chef Can Cook!; Roof Top View; Make the Beds; The Spy in Room 314; Rack
‘em Up (I Told You So).
Hard Bop Messengers: Live at the Last Hotel
by Jack Bowers
First came the Jazz Messengers, led by drummer Art Blakey, a high-powered group (usually a sextet), that performed for more than thirty-five years until Blakey's death in 1990. Now come the Hard Bop Messengers, another sextet led by trombonist John Covelli, the title of whose 2022 album, Live at the Last Hotel, is rather misleading, to ...
Field Theory
Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. KITE FLYING 6:36
2. DISTURBANCE 5:39
3. CLOSER NOW 5:19
4. FIELD THEORY 7:06
5. LOOKING ROUND CORNERS 6:30
6. ENERGY MOVER 6:20
7. 2.27.20 3:08
8. PENTA FOLK: ARRIVE 2:11
9. PENTA FOLK: COALESCE 1:46
10. PENTA FOLK: ASCEND 4:45
11. PENTA FOLK: DEPARTURE 1:07
12. SELF NARRATIVE 5:27
Contemporary Composer/Guitarist Matt Panayides' 'Field Theory' Explores New Sonic Landscapes
On Field Theory, guitarist and composer Matt Panayides explores new sonic landscapes by mixing electric and acoustic sounds in a set of modern, highly original post-bop compositions. Field Theory is a departure from Panayides’ previous releases, Conduits (2016) and Tapestries of Song (2011), which were both acoustic, modern jazz projects. Panayides, who grew up in Springfield, ...
