Matt Mitchell (pianist)
Matt Mitchell (born July 19, 1975 ) is an American jazz pianist , keyboardist , arranger and composer who works in the fields of creative jazz , electroacoustic and improvised music .
Live and act
Mitchell began playing the piano at the age of six; at ten he wrote his first compositions. After high school and attending several music schools, he studied at Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music , where he received his Masters. He also played in various musical areas from rock music , fusion , hip-hop , salsa and polka . He took lessons from David Baker , Luke Gillespie, Michael Cain and Elizabeth DiFelice. He lived in Philadelphia until 1999 , worked a. a. with Ralph Alessi , Wes Anderson , David Baker, Jimmy Coe , Ravi Coltrane , Peter Epstein , Alonzo Pookie Johnson , Josh Roseman and David Young .
Since then Mitchell has been working in New York City , a. a. with the improvisation trios Kaktus and Feigner and in the art rock band Thinking Plague . In 2006 he released his debut album Vapor Squint, Antique Chromatic . Since the 2000s he has also worked with Dave Douglas ( Be Still , 2012), The Claudia Quintet ( What Is the Beautiful? ) And Tim Berne ( Snakeoil , ECM 2012), for whom he also arranged. He also took part in recordings of Michaël Attias , Brendan Dougherty, Darius Jones . In 2012 he performed with John Hollenbeck at the Newport Jazz Festival ; At the end of the year he performed the Background Music (The Music of Lennie Tristano ) program with Chris Speed , Oscar Noriega , Trevor Dunn and Dan Weiss . He also appears with his own trio, in which he plays with Christopher Tordini and Dan Weiss. In 2013 he released the album Fiction ( Pi Recordings ), in 2017 A Pouting Grimace (Pi).
Discographic notes
- Matt Mitchell Plays Tim Berne - førage (Screwgun, 2017)
- Phalanx Ambassadors ( Pi Recordings , 2019)
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait at Scrabble Records
- Interview by David R. Adler with Tim Berne and Matt Mitchell (2009)
- Matt Mitchell at Allmusic (English)
- Matt Mitchell at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz Listings for Dec. 28-Jan. 3 in The New York Times
- ^ Nate Chinen: New Compositions From a Trio Propelled by Piano - Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House (2012) in NYTimes
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| SURNAME | Mitchell, Matt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist, keyboardist, arranger and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1975 |