The new Kate Peters Septet album was released last week – see http://www.kate-peters.com/home.cfm to buy a copy!
The CD features my arrangements of ‘Around the World,’ ‘Love for Sale’ and ‘She’s Leaving Home’ as well as 6 other similar pop/jazz/country covers.
The septet is also set for more performances in the Autumn, with HEART (10th Dec) and the Lescar (30th Nov) recently added to the diary.
The Matt Anderson Quartet sampler CD has been reviewed by Lance Liddle of the bebop spoken here blog – see http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2011/07/cddownload-review-matt-anderson-quartet.html.
We’ve finally been able to release the Matt Anderson Quartet sampler CD, recorded in March at Savile and Chrome studios in Leeds. The project was kindly funded by Jazz Yorkshire, and we’re very grateful to them as well as to Rosemary Vanns and Oli Bentley, who provided the artwork/design for the sleeve and the CD respectively.
The sampler is made up of five of my original compositions and one by Aubin Vanns, all recorded in the same session on March 18th by my regular quartet which also includes Sam Gardner and John Marley. This recording was part of our regional tour sponsored by Jazz Yorkshire.
You can see, hear and download the sampler for free online at bandcamp – our page is http://mattandersonquartet.bandcamp.com and it is also embedded below. Hope you enjoy it!
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New performances announced:
Monday 11th July – Standards gig at Sela Bar, Leeds, with Jamil Sheriff, Garry Jackson and Sam Gardner.
Tuesday 16th August – w/ Sam Watts Quartet at the Spotted Dog, Birmingham, with Hamish Livingstone and Sam Gardner.
Plus Matt Anderson Quintet gigs in September/October:
25th September – Scarborough Jazz Festival
2nd October – Pave Cafe, Hull
11th October – Matt n’ Phreds, Manchester
16th October – 7arts Centre, Leeds
Leeds Guide review of the Matt Anderson Quartet’s gig at Wakefield Jazz on the 8th April:
http://www.leedsguide.co.uk/review/live-review/matt-anderson-quartet-yoruba/18385.
New duo videos of Aubin and I have been embedded from YouTube – check them out on the new Videos page.
On Sunday we finished off our regional ‘Futures’ tour with a very enjoyable gig at the 7arts centre in Chapel-Allerton. It’s been great to play our own material at some of the best clubs in the area, some completely new to us, and so big thanks to Nigel Slee and Jazz Yorkshire as well as the promoters who put us on like Chris de Saram, Martin Powell and Steve Crocker.
Check out a Leeds Guide review of our Wakefield Jazz gig here.
Our new recordings are sounding ever-better as we go through the mixing/mastering stage at Savile and Chrome studios in Leeds, and I hope to have them completed and ready to be put on a sampler CD by mid-May. We also got some live recordings done at 7arts so hoping to upload those soon.
Matt Roberts’ Tribute to Miles Davis is doing a string of dates in Leeds over the weekend of the 18th June: we’ve got Wakefield Jazz (17th), HEART in Headingley (18th), 7arts (19th) and Sela Bar (20th) in what promises to be a very enjoyable few days for us. Fears of over-exposure may be dispelled by news that we will be using different tunes/approaches and focusing on different periods of Miles’ career up to ’67 for all four dates. See the gig calendar for more details…
The band is:
Matt Roberts – trumpet, Matt Anderson – tenor, George Grant – alto, Sam Watts – piano, John Marley – double-bass and Sam Gardner – drums.
Tomorrow evening sees the start of the Matt Anderson Quartet’s regional tour, sponsored by Jazz Yorkshire as part of their ‘Futures’ scheme. The first date is Wakefield Jazz alongside Aron Kyne’s ‘Yoruba,’ and other dates include Jazz at the Priestley (15th April), The Coliseum (21st April), The Phoenix (26th April) and 7arts (1st May) – see the gig calendar for more info.
My composition ‘The Crunch’ was recently recorded by Birmingham Conservatoire students Euan Palmer, Tobie Carpenter, Chris Young and Hamish Livingstone – you can listen to it below:
Last weekend was the seventh annual Gateshead International Jazz Festival at the Sage, and I made the trip up on Saturday for some high-quality gigs – Stian Westerhus, FOOD with special guest Eivind Aarset, Joe Lovano’s ‘Us Five’ and Mike Stern.
FOOD was the highlight, immediately re-creating the distinctive blend between electronic and acoustic sounds that defines their recordings. The band is now a duo between Iain Ballamy (saxophones) and Thomas Stronen (drums/percussion), with special guest Eivind Aarset adding sometimes heavily-layered guitar textures and effects, and they freely improvised a 70-minute set so well structured that it often sounded composed and rehearsed.
Tomorrow evening we are going back into the studio for a final session of mastering, and then we will have a short CD’s-worth of properly produced, original tracks to distribute for free as a promotional tool. Hopefully, by the weekend they should be available on this site to listen to.
Happy to be featured on Martin Powell’s ‘JazzScene’ broadcast on BCB Radio this Tuesday – the broadcast can be heard at http://jazzscene.podomatic.com/.