Matt Parker Trio
Saxophone, bass and drums, wide open. Matt’s originals, the standards and a little Mingus.
The Matt Parker Trio strips the band to saxophone, bass and drums and leaves the music wide open. In Matt’s playing you hear echoes of Ben Webster’s gentle and brutish sides, Lester Young’s lyricism, Sonny Rollins’s unfettered imagination and Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s adventurousness, in tunes that range from swinging groove blues to soprano-and-drums workouts.
The trio’s album Present Time (BYNK Records, 2016) holds seven Parker originals, an old standard and a previously unrecorded Charles Mingus tune, “Song to Keki.” DownBeat gave it four and a half stars and named it one of the best albums of 2016.
There’s an ease to the working relationships of Parker, Hampton and Quinerly that becomes palpable in the listening experience.
Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz, on Present Time
On screen and on the soundtrack of John Wick. Maynard Ferguson, Postmodern Jukebox, the Mingus Big Band.
On the record: Present Time features bassist Alan Hampton and drummer Reggie Quinerly.
Two 45-minute sets, or one 75-minute concert set.
Matt’s originals from Worlds Put Together and Present Time, standards, and Mingus.
Jazz clubs, listening rooms, small halls, museums and college series.
The trio also performs with a tap dancer as its own show. Ask for it.
- A drum kit and bass amp when the band travels by air
- PA and three monitor mixes in larger rooms
- One vocal mic for announcements
- A stage area about 12 by 10 feet
The trio can play with only saxophone and bass in the house system, or fully acoustic.
- The Buttonwood TreeMiddletown, CT
- Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central TerminalNew York, NY · 2016
- National Sawdust, Present Time release showBrooklyn, NY · 2016
- Nublu Jazz FestivalNew York, NY
- NubluNew York, NY
- Cornelia Street CafeNew York, NY
- The Slipper RoomNew York, NY
Book the Trio
The Matt Parker Trio is booked directly through BYNK Records. We promote and advertise every show heavily.
Dates and terms: write to us and we’ll send availability.