Bassist, Composer & Woolgathering Records Founder Matt Ulery Sloughs Off Easy Narratives, Sculpts Luxurious Harmonic Layers With Mannerist, Due Out May 5 Bassist, composer, bandleader, and Woolgathering Records label founder Matt Ulery is proud to announce the May 5, 2023 release of his new undecet album Mannerist on said label. As Chicago Reader put it … Read More
Matt Ulery and Zach Brock Team with KAIA String Quartet on Become Giant, New Release out August 26, 2022 via Woolgathering A work of heartbreaking grandeur, Become Giant—the new release by master composer/bassist Matt Ulery out August 26 on Woolgathering Records—features world-renowned violinist Zach Brock and the brilliant Chicago-based KAIA String Quartet soaring for 36 … Read More
The 70th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll is out now, highlighting several albums and artists repped from May 2021-April 2022 at Lydia Liebman Promotions. See the full list below! Rising Star Large Ensemble 1. Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band Rising Star Soprano Sax 1. Roxy Coss Jazz Artist of the Year 17. Dave Liebman Jazz Album … Read More
by Troy Dostert, All About Jazz “With Live at the Green Mill, Ulery has achieved the perfect realization of his vision for this band, one that still possesses a rarefied tunefulness, but which also embodies the raw energy of the best jazz. And it makes one other thing clear—catch Ulery and his associates live, if at … Read More
by Ron Schepper, Textura “This sophomore release by Matt Ulery’s Delicate Charms has the distinction of being the Chicago bassist’s first live recording. Yet no matter how different the projects might be within his wide-ranging discography, one thing in particular unites them: Ulery’s voice as a composer. Every piece he writes bears his unmistakable signature, … Read More
by Ron Schepper, Textura In their Best 30 Jazz Albums of 2021, Textura nods to Jalen Baker’s This Is Me, This Is Us, Jihye Lee Orchestra’s Daring Mind, Adi Meyerson’s I Want To Sing My Heart Out In Praise of Life, Adam Moezinia’s Folk Element Trio, Tomoko Omura’s Branches Vol. 2, Sam Pilnick’s The Adler … Read More
By Kevin Johnson, No Treble Bassist and composer Matt Ulery has released many beautiful albums, but they’ve all been made in the studio. Now he’s produced his first live record called Delicate Charms Live at the Green Mill, which captures his band and their incredible energy in the spring of 2021. Read more here.
Celebrated Bassist and Composer Matt Ulery Announces the Release of His First Live Record, Delicate Charms Live at the Green Mill Out October 6th on Woolgathering – Release Show at the Hungry Brain on October 6th Woolgathering Records is thrilled to announce the October 6th release of bassist and composer Matt Ulery’s Delicate Charms Live … Read More
By Ludovico Gravanssu, All About Jazz This and much more in this edition of Mondo Jazz. Happy listening! Check this playlist here.
By Chris Spector, Midwest Records REGINA CARTER FREEDOM BAND/Swing States Harmony in the Battleground: Chop wise, Carter is a player you can’t argue with. The resume is too long to reprint when you can Google it. Politically, she’s a force of nature that power’s a Republican’s worst nightmare. Read all this reviews here.
