Matt Nelson (saxophonist)
Matthew "Matt" Nelson (* around 1980 in the San Francisco Bay Area ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( tenor saxophone , electronics, composition ).
Live and act
Nelson studied at the Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio) with Gary Bartz and Paul Cohen. After his return to the Bay Area he worked in the local music scene, a. a. in the experimental pop band tUnE-yArDs , who also made recordings ( whokill ). In 2010 he moved to New York and played in the formations GRID, Elder Ones, Premature Burial (with Peter Evans and Dan Peck ), Skeletons and in Weasel Walter Large Ensemble. He is also a member of the tenor saxophone quintet Battle Trance (album Palace of Wind , 2014). He released a solo album of electro-acoustic music under his own name, Lower Bottoms (2014). Currently (2018) he plays in the trio GRID with Tim Dahl (bass) and Nick Podgurski (drums).
Discographic notes
- Something Crazy (2002)
- Arts & Sciences: New You (SingleSpeed, 2013), with Theo Padouvas, Rob Ewing, Aram Shelton , Jacob Zimmerman, Michael Coleman , Andrew Conklin, Jordan Glenn
- Premature Burial: The Conjuring (New Atlantis Records, 2015), with Dan Peck, Peter Evans
- Matt Nelson & Ron Stabinsky : Hard Vibe ( ESP-Disk , 2017), with Matthew Mottel, Kevin Shea
- GRID: GRID (NNA Tapes, 2017)
- Brandon Lopez , Matt Nelson *, Andria Nicodemou , Gerald Cleaver : The Industry of Entropy (Relative Pitch Records, 2018)
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait at Dansr
- Matt Nelson at Allmusic (English)
- Matt Nelson at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coming to Detroit. Avant Music news, March 27, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nelson, Matt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nelson, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco Bay Area |