Matt Anderson / Jiannis Pavlidis Quartet

Matt Anderson - Tenor Saxophone
Jiannis Pavlidis - Guitar
Simon Read - Double-Bass
Sam Gardner - Drums

Matt Anderson / Jiannis Pavlidis Quartet - Aubin Vibe (Live)

Matt Anderson / Jiannis Pavlidis Quartet - Let'sco (Live)

Sneak preview of the new Wild Flower Sextet album, recorded last weekend (21-22 Feb) at Leeds College of Music by Barkley McKay and Valley Wood Studio - here is the unmixed outro of J.G. 

Matt Anderson - Tenor Saxophone
Laura Jurd - Trumpet
Alex Munk - Guitar
Jamil Sheriff - Piano
Sam Gardner - Drums
Sam Vicary - Double-Bass

Wild Flower Sextet - J.G. outro (unmixed)

Matt Anderson – Tenor Saxophone
Laura Jurd – Trumpet
Alex Munk – Electric Guitar
Jamil Sheriff – Piano
Sam Vicary – Double-Bass
Sam Gardner – Drums

Recorded Feb 2013 by Barkley McKay and Valley Wood Studios.

Wild Flower Sextet - Blues For Wayne

This big band piece was commissioned by Jambone at the Sage Gateshead for their 2017 International Jazz Festival, and it was recorded here by the Royal Academy of Music Big Band in July 2017 at their St. Mark's Studio, Marylebone, London.

Saxophones - Tom Barford, Quinn Oulton, Mykolas Viningas, Dan Smith (soloist) and Brian Bibb.

Trombones - Chris Saunders, Olli Martin, Rory Ingham and Joel Knee.

Trumpets - Jake Labazzi (soloist), Louis Dowdeswell, Tom Gardner and Luke Vice-Coles.

Drums- Phelan Burgoyne
Guitar - Billy Marrows
Piano - Rupert Cox
Bass - Will Harris

Conductor - Pete Churchill

Mixed and mastered by Nick Dover at Canyon Sound, Bristol

Royal Academy of Music Big Band dir. Pete Churchill - Interesting Times (by Matt Anderson)

Recorded 19/8/2010 at Birmingham Conservatoire.

"Skye" composed by Matt Anderson.

Band members:

Matt Anderson - tenor
Tobie Carpenter - guitar
Tom McCredie - double-bass
Euan Palmer - drums

Skye (Old Recording!)

Born in the North Yorkshire Moors, the son of a music teacher, and based in Leeds for a time, saxophonist and Dankworth Prize-winning composer Matt Anderson has lived in London since 2015. His first three albums, Wild Flower Sextet, Rambling and The Town and the City, were well-received by the jazz press, with All About Jazz describing the latest release as “a work that focuses on the band's musicianship and the strength of the compositions, while a real sense of spontaneity and enjoyment pervades the recording… Anderson's tenor saxophone tone is rich and warm”.
 
Becoming part of the fertile jazz scene in the capital, Anderson has since performed with artists/bands such as the Gareth Lockrane and Calum Gourlay big bands, Jamie Doe, Hannes Riepler and Ivo Neame. In Leeds, he performed and recorded with many of the city’s top musicians/composers including Jamie Taylor, Jamil Sheriff and Jiannis Pavlidis (in collaboration with Greg Hutchinson), and he has also toured in New Zealand, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. In 2023, he became a D’Addario Woodwinds artist and was also made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for contributions to the music industry.

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