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Although jazz music continuously evolves, many of its performers stick to a fairly traditional set of instruments. There are plenty of recordings featuring saxophones, trumpets, pianos, or guitars, but how often do you see a jazz record featuring a euphonium? Brad Felt's The Dana Sessions: Duets With John Dana, showcases the possibilities of this often overlooked ...

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Life's a Take

By Rich Matteson

Label: Four Leaf Clover Records
Released: 1999

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"Pardon Our Dust, We're Making Changes"

By Rich Matteson

Label: Four Leaf Clover Records
Released: 1999

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Rich Matteson Sextet: "Pardon Our Dust, We're Making Changes"

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 1999

If the late Rich Matteson had chosen performing instead of education as a career, he could’ve challenged harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans for top honors each year in Down Beat magazine’s “miscellaneous instruments” category. Matteson, who established the Jazz Studies program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, often joked that he was “the world’s greatest ...

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Rich Matteson-Red Mitchell: Life's a Take

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 1999

It’s almost as hard to comprehend that this buoyant album was recorded almost 15 years ago as it is to accept the fact that neither Rich Matteson (“the world’s greatest Jazz euphonium player”) nor Red Mitchell (“one of the world’s two greatest bassists to share that surname”) is no longer with us. Ironically, the session’s scurrying, ...

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