Name Matt Lavelle | Music group Stars Like Fleas | |
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Albums Cuica In The Third House, Goodbye New York,Hello World, The Ken Burns Effect Similar People Sabir Mateen, Giuseppi Logan, Roy Campbell - Jr, Steve Swell, Bern Nix | ||
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Matt Lavelle (born 1970 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a jazz trumpet, flugelhorn and bass clarinet player.
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Matt Lavelle Quartet - Jan 6, 2019
Career
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Bass and Alto Clarinet player, and composer Matt Lavelle is a prominent member of the downtown music community in NYC. He began his music career with Hildred Humphries, a swing era veteran who played with Count Basie and Billie Holiday. He has played in ensembles led by Sabir Mateen since 2002. In 2005, Lavelle began study with Ornette Coleman. Lavelle has been a member of the Bern Nix quartet since 2010. He was instrumental in the return of Giuseppi Logan leading to a recording in 2010. In 2011 Lavelle created the 12 Houses Orchestra. Lavelle records for Unseen Rain and has an expected release from ESP records in the fall of 2017.
Lavelle has played and collaborated with Ornette Coleman, William Parker, Warren Smith, Henry Grimes, Eric Mingus, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Jemeel Moondoc, Mat Maneri, Ras Moshe, Hilliard Greene, Steve Swell, Matana Roberts, Bern Nix, Jack DeSalvo, Charles Downs, Tom Cabrera, Francois Grillot, Giuseppi Logan, William Hooker and many others.
Lavelle published his first book, New York City Subway Drama and Beyond in 2011. In 2013 Lavelle published a second book called The Jazz Musician's Tarot Deck. Lavelle is also the author of the blog No Sound Left Behind.
Discography
Leader/Collective:
Matt Lavelle - The Matt Lavelle Quartet 2017/Unseen Rain
Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses - End Times 2017/Unseen Rain
Harmolodic Monk - 2016/Unseen Rain
Sumari II - 2016/Unseen Rain
Sumari - 2013/Unseen Rain
Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses - Solidarity 2013/Unseen Rain
Matt Lavelle - Goodbye New York, Hello World 2010
Matt Lavelle and Morcilla, the Manifestation Drama 2008
Matt Lavelle/Barry Chabala - I Like To Play 2007/Roeba Records
Matt Lavelle - Cuica In The Third House 2007/KMB Jazz
Matt Lavelle Trio (with Hilliard Greene and Mike 'TA' Thompson) - Spiritual Power 2007/Silkheart
Eye Contact - War Rug 2006/KMB Jazz
Eye Contact - Making Eye Contact With God 2005/Utech
Eye Contact - Embracing The Tide 2005/Utech
Sparks Trio - Short Stories In Sound 2006/Utech
Matt Lavelle/Daniel Carter live at Tower Records- Blackwood 2006/Antamira
Matt Lavelle/Daniel Carter - self-titled 2004/self-released
Matt Lavelle - Trumpet Rising, Bass Clarinet Moon 2003/self-released
Matt Lavelle Quartet - Handling The Moment 2002/CIMP
Sideman:
Bern Nix Quartet - Negative Capability 2013
Giussepi Logan Quintet - The Giuseppi Logan Quintet 2010/Tompkins Square
Steve Swell's Nation of We - Live at The Bowery Poetry Club 2006/Ayler
Sabir Mateen's Shapes, Textures and Sounds Ensemble - Propehcies Come To Pass 2006/577
Steve Swell's Unified Theory Of Sound - This Now! 2005/Cadence
Ras Moshe + The Music Now Unit - Live Spirits, Volume 1 2005/Utech
Ras Moshe + The Music Now Unit - Into The Openness 2003/Music Now!
Ras Moshe + The Music Now Unit - Schematic 2002/Jump Arts!
Assif Tsahar's New York Underground Orchestra - The Labyrinth 2003/Hopscotch
Assif Tsahar's Zoanthropic Orchestra - Embracing The Void 2003/Hopscotch
With William Parker