Matt Lavelle

Matt Lavelle (born 1970 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet, and bass clarinet player.^[1][2]

Career

Matt Lavelle is a trumpet, flugelhorn, bass and alto clarinet player, and composer based in New York City. 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. Lavelle recorded with Giuseppi Logan 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 spring of 2018.

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^[3]. In 2013 he published a second book called The Jazz Musician's Tarot Deck.^[4] Lavelle is also the author of the blog No Sound Left Behind. Among the claims Matt made on his blog were that Eric Dolphy had spiritually handed over the bass clarinet to him and that a Ouija board had informed him that he was of African descent.

Discography

As a leader^[5]

• Retrograde (ESP,2018)

• The Matt Lavelle Quartet (Unseen Rain,2017)

• Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses - End Times (Unseen rain,2017)

• Harmolodic Monk (Unseen Rain,2016)

• Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses - Solidarity (Unseen Rain,2013)

• Goodbye New York, Hello World (Spiritual Power,2010)

• Matt Lavelle and Morcilla, the Manifestation Drama (Spiritual Power,2008)

• Cuica In The Third House (KMB Jazz,2007)

• Matt Lavelle Trio-Spiritual Power" Silkheart, 2006

• Trumpet Rising, Bass Clarinet Moon (Spiritual Power,2003)

• Handling The Moment (CIMP,2002)

With Sumari^[6]

• Sumari (Unseen Rain,2014)
• Sumari II" (Unseen Rain,2016)

With Eye Contact^[7]

• Embracing the Tide (Utech,2005)
• Making Eye Contact With God (Utech,2005)
• War Rug (KMB Jazz, 2006)

With Daniel Carter

• Daniel Carter and Matt Lavelle live at Tower Records (Antnimara, 2006)^[8]
• Daniel Carter and Matt Lavelle (Spiritual Power, 2004)^[9]

With Bern Nix

• [Negative Capability] (Kitchen Records,2013)^[10]

With Giussepi Logan

• The Giuseppi Logan Quintet (Tompkins Square, 2010)^[11]

With Steve Swell

• This Now! (Cadence, 2005)^[12]
• Live at the Bowery Poetry Club (Ayler, 2006)^[13]

With Sabir Mateen^[14]

• Prophecies Come To Pass (577 records,2006)^[15]
• The Jubilee ensemble (Not Two, 2007)^[16]

With Ras Moshe^[17]

• Into the Openess (Music Now, 2002)
• Schematic (Jump Arts, 2002)
• Live Spirits (Utech,2005)
• Sparks Trio- Short Stories In Sound (Utech,2006)

With Assif Tsahar^[18]

• The Labyrinth (Hopscotch,2003)
• Embracing the void (Hopscotch,2003)

With William Parker^[19]

• Spontaneous (Splasc(H), 2002)
• For Percy Heath (Victo, 2006)
• Essence of Ellington (Centering, 2012)

With Barry Chabala^[20]

• I Like to Play (Roeba Records,2007)

With Earth People

• Waking the living (Undivided vision, 2001)

With Allen Lowe

• We Will Gather When We Gather, featuring Hamiet Bluiett (Constant Sorrow, 2015)^[21]

References