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SFJAZZ Summerfest Presents a Free Concert with Dmitri Matheny at Union Square 8/24 |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
 Dmitri Matheny
Nationally renowned, Bay Area dwelling Dmitri Matheny shares his
seductive and sophisticated brand of post-bop jazz — as heard on
acclaimed discs like Red Reflections and Nocturne. Few horn men in
America enjoy such universal acclaim as Dmitri Matheny, whose
unforgettable sound has been called "so cool it'll run a shiver through
your martini." Dmitri has been named "Best New Artist" in the JazzIz
Readers Poll and "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" in the Down
Beat International Critics Poll.
Celebrated for his warm romantic tone, soaring lyricism and masterful
technique, Matheny was first introduced to jazz audiences in the 1980s
as the protege of flugelhorn legend Art Farmer. Now hailed as "the
first breakthrough flugelhornist since Chuck Mangione" (San Jose
Mercury News), Matheny has appeared on dozens of compact discs as a
composer, arranger, producer and featured soloist.
Born on Christmas Day, 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised in
Georgia and Arizona, Dmitri began playing the trumpet at age 9. He is
an honors graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and the
Berklee College of Music in Boston. While still in college, the young
trumpeter led his own bands while working professionally as a sideman
with the Temptations, Martha Reeves, and the True Colors Big Band. In
1989 he graduated magna cum laude from Berklee and relocated to the San
Francisco Bay Area.
He has performed with a number of jazz luminaries, including Nathan
Davis, Red Holloway, Denise Jannah, James Moody, Max Roach, Sam Rivers,
Bud Shank, Billy Taylor and Bobby Watson. He began touring with his own
bands in 1996, with Amina Figarova in 1997, and with Darrell Grant in
1998. Since then he has become a star in his own right, playing
nightclubs, concert halls and music festivals worldwide.
Today, Matheny tours extensively as a soloist and bandleader throughout
the United States, Europe and Asia, performing over 100 concerts
internationally on tour each year. When at home in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Dmitri dedicates himself to a wide variety of not-for-profit
music and education organizations.
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 Saturday, 22 November 2008
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