Matt Haviland

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Matt Haviland (born June 17, 1961 in Des Moines ) is an American musician ( trombone , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Haviland grew up in Summit, New Jersey, with three older siblings. After first starting to play the baritone horn, he switched to the trombone in middle school to join the school's jazz band. At the age of 15 he received his first jazz trombone recording, The Golden Horn of Jack Teagarden , as a gift. Other early influences included the music of Jimmy Knepper , Count Basie , Al Gray and JJ Johnson . In 1979 Haviland attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and studied jazz composition and arrangement as well as performance. The teachers included Herb Pomeroy , Ken Pullig, and Phil Wilson .

From 1983 Haviland worked in the New York jazz scene with Illinois Jacquet (with whom the first recordings were made), the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Blood, Sweat & Tears , the Mingus Big Band , Eumir Deodato and Lionel Hampton , and in later years with Diane Mosers Composers Big Band , Frank London , Steven Bernstein , the Levon Helm Band, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra and in various Broadway shows ( Swing, Drowsy Chaperone, Color Purple, South Pacific, Priscilla ). He also worked as a composer and arranger. In 2006 he released the album Beyond Good & Evil (Connotation Records) under his own name .

Haviland lived for many years in Nyack, New York, where he worked as a performer, board member of the Rockland County Jazz and Blues Society and co-curator of the Jazz at Riverspace Arts event complex . He now lives and works in New York City. There he also performs with his quartet, which includes Dave Kikoski (piano), Ugonna Okegwo (bass) and Winard Harper (drums). In the field of jazz he was involved in 13 recording sessions between 1987 and 2018, according to Tom Lord . a. also with Charli Persip , Jackie Cain & Roy Kral , the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra, the Bill Warfield Big Band and The New York Jazz Repertory Ensemble.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matt Haviland, Trombone. Smalls, January 1, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 31, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Haviland, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines