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Welcome Home
is Matt’s highly anticipated ninth jazz album - recorded, mixed and mastered
by the same stellar team as “Hot Ticket”… nine-time Grammy winner Tom
Bates and
Grammy-nominee Jonathan Wyner.
Welcome Home celebrates the many places Matt now calls “home,” from the
country to the city to concerts around the world. Composed and arranged
entirely by Matt, Welcome Home features both a quintet and a trio to
showcase Matt’s music. The quintet lineup reunites Matt with saxophone
great Bobby Watson, with whom Matt performed seven years ago. Bobby Watson
is featured on alto sax, Jeremy Pelt on trumpet/flugelhorn, Joris Teepe on
bass and Peter Retzlaff on drums. Several of Matt’s new compositions appear
as trio recordings with various configurations comprised of Joris Teepe and
Peter Retzlaff as well as longtime bassist, John Funkhouser and drummer,
Yoron Israel. Recorded at Systems Two Recording Studio in Brooklyn, the
album features thirteen new and original songs including the five-part
Big Apple Suite, inspired by Matt’s landmark musical appearances in
Manhattan. Presently a sophomore at Berklee College of Music, Matt used his
campus experience as inspiration for the title track as well as the song,
You Are Here. Welcome Home takes the listener from the cycles of
country life to the day-to-night rhythms of a metropolitan city. “It’s
about changing homes incredibly quickly and still calling it home,” says
Matt. “It’s about being suddenly bombarded with information and surrounded
by people and then taking a break from that. It’s about the fear of the
inevitable … and the thrill of promise. It’s about returning home as much
as it is about going away. And, more than anything, it’s about enjoying
every minute of it.”
SAV-009
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Hot
Ticket: Live in Boston is the Trio’s first LIVE album since "Chasing
Your Tail." Matt’s growth even since “Quantum Leap” is chronicled here in a
way seldom heard in a live album. Recorded and mixed by multiple
Grammy-winning sound engineer, Tom Bates, and mastered by Grammy-nominee,
Jonathan Wyner, the music is heard clearly and in its full splendor. The
concert was recorded at the Trio’s concert series at Tufts University’s
prestigious Distler Hall at the Granoff Music Center on September 29th and
30th, 2007. This recording features Matt’s newest NY-based Trio, Dave
Robaire on bass and Joe Saylor on drums. Phenomenal musicians, Dave and Joe
have been performing with Matt worldwide for the last year, including at the
Ottawa International Jazz Festival in June of 2007. Hot Ticket is
comprised of live versions of Matt’s hits from previous albums, a slew of
NEW hits written especially for this recording and a Savage-style take on
Miles Davis’ Seven Steps to Heaven. The album is true to its name…an
upbeat, lively concert balanced with several gorgeous ballads by Matt,
including Colors and Setting Sun. Listen to clips from the
album on the web site!!!!
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Quantum Leap
Matt was a
month shy of turning 14-years-old when he recorded this CD. The brilliance
of the CD proclaims Matt’s rocketing maturation in composition, versatility
and technique. Quantum Leap contains many of Matt’s jaw-dropping original
compositions, such as “Curacao,” “Blues in 33/8” and the ASCAP-winning
ballad “Serenity.” However, Matt also puts his personal mark on such
standards as “All The Things You Are” (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
II), “Monk’s Dream” (Thelonious Monk) and others. His solo piano rendition
of Thad Jones’ ballad “A Child is Born” is both soulful and passionate. Now
that the Trio has become a well-seasoned musical entity, all three musicians
showcase their individual styles and talents with wonderful give and take.
Quantum Leap is essentially a “coming out” party for Matt. By including on
the album odd-time-signature tunes, upbeat showstoppers, haunting and
memorable ballads, hot Latin-based rhythms, down-and-out blues, standards
and even a solo piano tune, Matt shows his ability to play anything and
everything and make it his own. Matt continues to amaze listeners with the
complex melodies and harmonies of his original compositions while branding
his own style onto jazz standards. The Matt Savage Trio is on a new playing
field now… where genius and joy make a quantum leap.
SAV-007
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Cutting Loose
12-yr-old
Matt Savage showcases his burgeoning talent in this outstanding CD. As both
composer and artist, he infuses youthful exuberance and “old soul”
experience into every tune. The name of this CD proclaims the dual
significance of the music contained within. Not only is Matt “cutting loose”
from childhood, but he cuts loose in the jazz sense, exploring a wide range
of styles and just going all out. The studio-recorded CD begins with a jazzy
tune entitled, Infected with Hemiola
and ends with a playful Ladybug
Bounce. “Don’t worry. Hemiola is not a disease. It’s just a musical
term meaning that you play phrases from one time signature when you’re
actually in another,” states Matt in the CD’s liner notes. Thus
begins a wild journey through musically complex twists and turns. A 5/4
blues, a 7/4 toe-tap, a stealthy “Pink Panther”-ishtune, a swing tune and
haunting ballads pause just long enough to squeeze in a waltz for mom. Of
course, no Matt Savage Trio CD would be complete without a couple of
fast-paced flag-wavers to send your socks flying. There are even a few
“edgy” jazz tunes unlike anything you’ve ever heard. Matt wrote all fourteen
of the tunes on this CD, and the range of his imagination and compositional
skills is limitless. Bursting with intricate time signatures,intoxicating
ballads and flat-out fun, this CD will captivate you from beginning to end.
SAV-006
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Chasing Your Tail
is a live in-concert CD recorded in January of 2003 in The Rinker Playhouse
at The Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, FL. It features almost entirely
original tunes composed by Matt, including four “world premier” tunes… El
Fuego, The Music Box, Firecracker, and the title tune,
Chasing Your Tail. The only standards on the disk are Chelsea Bridge
(by Billy Strayhorn), Body and Soul (by Johnny Green), and My
Favorite Things (by Rodgers and Hammerstein). Since Chasing Your Tail
is a live CD, you hear Matt’s entertaining anecdotes and song
announcements, as well as the spontaneous and creative musical interplay
among the three musicians. John Funkhouser shines on the bass and Steve
Silverstein is awesome on the drums. Although the album was recorded when
Matt was just 10-years-old, it is the most recent of the Trio’s live concert
CDs.
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Groovin’ On Mount Everest
is The Matt Savage Trio’s first studio recording. It contains over an hour
of original compositions by 9-year-old pianist/leader Matt Savage, along
with two standards by jazz greats Duke Ellington (Satin Doll) and
Harburg/Arlen (Somewhere Over The Rainbow). Groovin’ On Mount
Everest is turning the jazz world on its ear. Matt has thrown a
curveball, stunning jazz lovers with the maturity and creativity of his
compositions. He is a more advanced pianist. Listen to the CD, realize that
Matt is still nine years old at the time of this recording, shake your head
in disbelief, and listen again.
SAV-004
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All
Jazzed Up
is the first professional recording of The Matt Savage Trio. It is also the
first recording of the Trio live in concert. It captures the magic of one of
their first performances together as a band at The Deertrees Theatre in
Harrison, ME on August 19th, 2001. It contains mostly original compositions
by 9-year-old pianist/leader Matt Savage, along with some jazz standards by
the talented Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Billy Strayhorn. All Jazzed Up
is to be appreciated not just for its excellent music but for the fact that
its pianist/composer/band leader is a mere child. Matt’s compositional
skills far exceed his age, and one can hear his blossoming talent on the
piano. This CD marks the beginning of a new stage in Matt’s race to achieve.
It is the album touted as the one to buy and hold as an early recording of
one of jazz’s up-and-coming best musicians. Matt has been called the
“Mozart” of jazz, a 9-year-old composer with lightning fast fingers and an
unbelievable sense of the harmonies, theory and complexities of jazz.
SAV-003
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