THE
WORK
25 years of performance, composition, and collaboration — as a leader, a sideman, a producer, and a label founder. Everything, organized by how it fits together.
"Collaboration is the key to my creative process. I'm a believer in connecting artistic worlds together."
— Matt Parker
The debut album that started everything. DownBeat Best Album of 2014. All About Jazz: "an accomplished and brilliant release." Something Else Reviews Album of the Year. The origin point of everything that followed.
Explore the debut →Solo performances exploring sound, space, and spirit. Cliffs of Moher. Cape Town. St. Paul’s Chapel. Each space is the second performer.
Parker Plays X — Neon Jazz, All About Jazz, Making A Scene. "Remaining on the edge, which proves to be their comfort zone."
Trombone. 20+ years from Maynard Ferguson to Carnegie Music Hall (PA). Rivers (2025), Avid Admirer (2016), First They Came (2025)
New: Little White Lies — Alan Hampton. Six catalog entries. All rights retained by artists.
Matt Parker & Alan Hampton as Pat & Tap. John Wick. Poolman (Chris Pine). Herrmann, Mancini, Les Baxter.
Present Time — sparse, unguarded. JAZZIZ, DownBeat, All About Jazz. Emily Braden on vocals.
Stay Inside the Work
New releases, upcoming shows, session availability, and the occasional thing worth knowing — direct from BYNK Records.
17-piece big band. Kennedy Center, Birdland, #29 jazz radio. Guests include Wayne Bergeron, John Riley & GRAMMY-winner Dan Pugach. Monthly at Side Door Jazz Club, Old Lyme CT.
Copenhagen disco-punk-jazz led by Mikkel Hess. First met at Monkey Town Brooklyn 2007. Four albums. Sax, clarinet, flute, bass synth, keys.
17 years inside NYC's most vivid creative community. Duane Park, The Slipper Room, Murray Hill, TANSY, Dorrance Dance & more.
NYC-based jazz ensemble. Album on BYNK Records 2015. A long-running musical friendship.
Old-school New Orleans R&B. Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, and the Crescent City tradition, live.
Original score for Brother, Mine — immersive audio drama. 9 episodes, 2022–2024. Ongoing collaboration.
Evil Man Blues from John Wick. Sugarfoot Stomp remix & remaster coming on BYNK Records.
NYC burlesque & variety. Active performer in the Slipper Room / Duane Park world since 2008.
Music from the SoleTap dance company. Performer and music director. Where jazz and tap meet at the highest level.
Active collaboration in the Latin jazz tradition. Ongoing performances and sessions.
Featured performer — 45th & 8th national tour 2022–23. Ongoing work with Michelle Dorrance's tap dance company.
Soul, jazz, and art as a unified force. Vocalist and bandleader. Active recording and live work.
Award-winning jazz ensemble at Hall High School, West Hartford CT. Active mentorship and performance.
Projects, companies, and ensembles that form the broader context — some long-running, some ongoing, all part of why the résumé looks the way it does.
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