Dmitri Matheny

Matheny Music | Papillon Recordings

• Web www.dmitrimatheny.com | Skype dmitri.matheny
• Phone 623.326.6021

Instrumentation

• Quintet of flugelhorn, saxophone, piano, bass, drums. Please mic and provide a separate monitor [and mix] for each musician. Please provide additional wireless mic on straight stand immediately stage right of flugelhorn for announcements.

Stage

• Performance stage must be flat, not raked, a minimum of twenty feet deep from down stage edge to upstage wall, and a minimum of thirty feet wide from stage left to stage right. Please provide ten bottles of still, room temperature water and 5 dark hand towels on stage, prior to arrival of musicians and crew for sound check.

Tech Personnel

• Please provide professional sound and lighting crew to operate all systems, to assist with load in/set-up/load out, and to work with artists to achieve desired results.

Grand Piano

• Please provide one (1) 9-foot concert grand piano (Steinway or Yamaha preferred), tuned to A-440 prior to sound check on day of show, prior to arrival of musicians for sound check. Please place piano lid at full stick.

Bass Amp

• Bassist will provide instrument. Please provide one (1) Gallien-Krueger bass amp with 4x10 speaker cabinet.

Drum Set

• Please provide one (1) professional jazz drum set. Preferred dimensions: 18 inch bass drum, 12 inch rack tom, 14 inch floor tom, 14 inch x 5 inch snare drum, 10 inch small tabla or conga drum, 4 cymbal stands, 2 snare stands, hi-hat stand, adjustable drum throne, 2 foot pedals for bass drum and hi-hat. Please place drums on a carpet but not on riser. Please do not mic drums except for overhead cymbal mics (if necessary). Drummer will provide sticks, cymbals, mallets and brushes.

Sound

• Please provide professional sound reinforcement capable of providing even coverage to all parts of venue. Minimum requirements:
• thirty-two (32) channel mixing console with four (4) bands of equalization and two (2) post-fade sends per channel;
• two (2) multi-effects processors: Yamaha Rev 7, SPX 900 or similar;
• high quality microphones [see attached stage plot], short and tall boom mic stands with heavy or tripod bases;
• separate monitor system with five (5) bi-amped monitor wedges and five (5) discrete mixes, separate 1/3 octave equalization for each channel, effects assignable to each channel, and onstage monitor console and engineer; and
• headset communication between backstage, house lights, audio console, and lighting console.

Lights

• Please provide a professional lighting system capable of assorted stage washes. No “follow spots” please.

OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO JAZZ EDUCATION IAJE (2000)

MODEL TOURING ARTIST California Arts Council (2000)

BEST NEW ARTISTS JazzIz International Readers Poll (1999)

BAY AREA BEST San Francisco Examiner Magazine (2000, 1998, 1997)

TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION 46th Annual DownBeat International Critics Poll (1998)

TOP 10 JAZZ RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR Oakland Tribune (1998)

BEST JAZZ RECORDING OF THE YEAR San Francisco Bay Guardian (1996)

THE YEAR'S BEST RECORDINGS Jazz Educators Journal (1996)

10 BEST JAZZ RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR JazzIz Critics Picks (1996)

Best of Dmitri Matheny

Welcome to the burnished world of flugelhorn artist Dmitri Matheny, who has spent his entire recording career giving the jazz heart of film noir a gilded elegance.

Inspired by the Dark

Protégé of the late Art Farmer, flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny works along the edge between chamber music and jazz, creating a musical landscape found when lights are low. The lyricism of his horn work is achingly poignant.

Matheny Makes a Little Night Music

Matheny’s latest release, Nocturne, travels from dawn to dusk, taking the listener on a warm and lovely trip through darkness.

UC Program to Get Lift From Jazzman Matheny

A noted composer who has received many commissions, Matheny is one of the most lyrical and creative musicians on the Bay Area jazz scene.

Monterey Jazz Festival

Dmitri Matheny (flugelhorn) and Darrell Grant (piano) have played together for years, and it shows. Both players have refined their instrumental technique to the essentials, and their music had a relaxed, uncomplicated sensibility that made it fun to listen to. Not surprisingly the audience loved them.

Matheny Left Traditional Route Behind

The flugelhornist's wide-open creative streak as a composer, arranger, improviser and accompanist is on view this week during his home season. With his beautiful, luminous tone and penchant for clean, deceptively simple lines, Matheny made good use of the time he spent studying with Art Farmer.

DMITRI MATHENY LOOKS UP FOR INSPIRATION

San Francisco-based flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny is making sure that the ballad form lives on with a warm, romantic tone and the encouragement from his mentor, jazz flugelhorn dean Art Farmer.

Dmitri Matheny Starlight Cafe

Extravagantly, unashamedly, irrestibly pretty. Like every jazz musician worthy of the name, Dmitri Matheny hears something all his own. His sound is lambent, poignant with human breath, a spirit voice that compels attention even when it whispers.

NAKED AND UPFRONT

Instead of leading off his debut album with a blast of dazzling flugelhorn chops, Dmitri Matheny opens Red Reflections with a gorgeous title track, a film noir-like mood piece that features him musing on his horn. It’s a fitting introduction to the San Francisco-based musician, who says that touching listeners with emotion is a higher goal than speed and technique.

Flugelhorn Combo Touring the West

A visionary. Matheny's flugelhorn is hot and cool, wide of range and brilliantly imaginative.

Dmitri Matheny Red Reflections

The debut CD of flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny is an intricate, colorful, slowly whirling vortex that draws you in deeper with each listen. A major talent as a composer.

BUZZIN' AT THE HIVE

Matheny's playing is soft as a breeze but also fresh with true jazz feeling. "I find myself moving toward playing fewer notes and making my solos spare and architectural. I'm trying to tell a story and be as lyrical as possible, approaching the flugelhorn as a singer would approach a song."

JAZZMAN DMITRI MATHENY STORMS THE BAY

If flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny's luminous sound and gift for melodic invention aren't enough to get your attention, he's got a few other tricks up his sleeve.

Dmitri Matheny Starlight Cafe

On this, his third CD as a leader, Dmitri Matheny displays the kind of flugelhorn sound that has inspired this Metheny to start spending an extra hour each day in the woodshed. 

It's as gorgeous and soulful as a sumptuous full moon on a breezy summer night. And that's not to mention a level of technique and fluidity that will probably end up adding another hour to this admirer's new regimen. 



Dmitri Matheny Starlight Cafe

Dmitri Matheny hardly plays an unpretty note on his flugelhorn throughout Starlight Café. Matheny essays ballads and mid-tempo pieces with a winning, natural lyricism...the very passion of jazz. Matheny is unquestionably a master of his own refined territory.

Dmitri Matheny Penumbra

Matheny's compositions and arrangements exploit their potential with a loving concern for fine detail. It is a particular pleasure to hear an outing that mixes solid, straight-ahead blowing with thoughtful composition and a subtle understanding of the crucial musical balance between sounds and silences.

FORSAKING BEBOP SOUND FOR MELODY AND LYRICISM

A master of the flugelhorn, the slightly larger and warmer-sounding cousin of the trumpet, Matheny wears his heart on his sleeve. Inspired by the minimalist balladry of Art Farmer, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, he has developed a deceptively simple style that depends on the subtle inflection and weight with which he places his notes, stringing them together in crystalline, rhythmically assured phrases.

Dmitri Matheny Penumbra

On this album, Matheny draws lyrical inspiration from the Moon. In his and the quintet's playing, he demonstrates a firm jazz perspective that incorporates lyrical predecessors Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Chet Baker, Kenny Wheeler and Tom Harrell. Veteran record executive Orrin Keepnews produced the session.

DMITRI MATHENY RED REFLECTIONS

His approach to the flugelhorn is lyrical, lean and often lithe, and his varied compositions are open to myriad possibilities. This group is long on sound and spirit.

MATHENY HORNS IN ON JAZZ GREATS' WORLD

From the opening notes of flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny's debut CD, Red Reflections, there's a languid, romantic tone that instantly warms itself to the listener. As he sketches out the first lyrical, sinuous lines that begin a musical journey through the various moods of his emotionally expressive music, it’s evident why the Bay Area horn player is among the hottest young musicians on the scene in jazz.