Sonny Lauderdale delivers The Good Vibes and Sunshine to your ears. Led by jazz saxophonist and composer Matt Parker, Sonny Lauderdale’s compositions are cinematic and feature lush sounds and warm aural environments. The captivating songs offer a wide range of pristine production music for all your industry needs.
Saxophonist Matt Parker has played with some of the biggest names in jazz. As Sonny Lauderdale, he creates superbly swinging tracks for PremiumBeat.
Florida-based jazz composer and saxophonist Matt Parker — aka PremiumBeat’s Sonny Lauderdale — is a master of improvisational music. His chops, knowledge, and focus grant him the freedom to be led by the music in the moment. It’s not that he’s making it up as he goes, it’s that he goes where the music takes him. This willingness to be creatively present — artistically in the now — is reflected in his go-with-the-flow professional journey.
As a teenager, he played Dixieland music for ten hours a day alongside veteran musicians in their 60s and 70s. After attending NYC’s New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he toured as a member of Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band.
He’s traveled to South Africa to perform with the Cape Town Youth Choir. He’s played with The Mingus Big Band and toured with Postmodern Jukebox. He appeared in and recorded for the blockbuster Keanu Reeves film John Wick. And, under the nom de sax Sonny Lauderdale, he’s the latest artist in the PremiumBeat Signature Series, where we showcase the talents of the people behind the sounds that help you tell your stories. Since 2017 I’ve been a composing artist for Premium Beats by Shutterstock Music. Working alongside my long-time collaborator Alan Hampton.
Such an honor to have my new album "Present Time" named by DownBeat Magazine as a Best Album of 2016 giving it ★★★★1/2 STARS