Matt Piet

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Matt Piet (* around 1990 in Chicago ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( piano , composition ). "Piet is a melodic player," wrote Peter Margasak in the Chicago Reader, "but his quality lies in his rhythmic liveliness and a fractal sense of phrasing ."

Live and act

Piet grew up in Chicago's suburb Palos Park and began learning piano and singing when he was ten. In addition to his classical training at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he dealt with jazz, improvisation and composition. In 2014, after his return to Chicago, he worked on the local jazz and improvisation scene a. a. in a trio with Dave Rempis and Tim Daisy , their own trio (with Charlie Kirchen (bass) and Julian Kirshner (drums) or Ben Dillinger and Tommaso Moretti) and with Jake Wark (tenor saxophone) and Bill Harris (drums) in the formation Four Letter Words ( Blow Album , 2016).

In the same year Piet released the album Of Sound Mind (Amalgam Music) under his own name , which he had recorded in trio with bassist Albert Wildeman and drummer Julian Kirshner . It got a positive review in All About Jazz . Matt Piet leads the Incipient Sessions series of events , with performances by Chicago musicians including Tim Daisy, Nick Mazzarella and Josh Berman .

Discographic notes

  • Matt Piet Trio: Of Sound Mind (Amalgam, 2015), with Albert Wildeman , Julian Kirshner
  • Matt Piet, Charlie Kirchen, Julian Kirshner: Live at Elastic Arts (2017)
  • Rempis / Piet / Daisy: Hit the Ground Running (Aerophonic Records, 2017)
  • Rempis / Piet / Daisy: Throw Tomatoes (2018)
  • Matt Piet & His Disorganization: Rummage Out (Clean Feed, 2018), with Josh Berman , Nick Mazzarella , Tim Daisy
  • City in a Garden (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Margasak: Local pianist Matt Piet drops a dazzling new trio album. October 21, 2016, accessed on March 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Event information . Elastic Arts, December 11, 2017, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Budd Koppman: Four Letter Words: Blow. All About Jazz, June 1, 2016, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Budd Koppman: Matt Piet: Of Sound Mind. All About Jazz , September 30, 2016, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  5. ^ Matt Piet & His Disorganization with Tim Daisy, Nick Mazzarella and Josh Berman. Ticket Fly, accessed on March 22, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Piet, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago