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Liany Mateo

Liany Mateo has traveled across the globe performing, touring, and teaching music. Influenced by a mix of hard-hitting straight-ahead swing, Free avant-garde, and music with deep pocket groove, Mateo deems herself a chameleon, fitting into many different types of musical situations.

You can find her playing all over New York City at a variety of venues including Birdland Jazz Club, The Django, The Jazz Gallery, and other notable performance spaces.  Mateo is the bassist for Arturo O'Farrill's "Legacies" album recorded on Blue Note records. Mateo was also featured on the PBS television show "NEXT at the Kennedy Center", as a featured artist introduced as Christian McBride's Protege.

She has performed with musicians such as Geoffrey Keezer, Matthew Whitaker, Carl Allen, Fay Victor, and Brandee Younger. She holds a Jazz degree from the esteemed Michigan State University (2020) and a Master’s degree from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute(2021). In 2023 she won the esteemed "Next Jazz Legacy" Award and grant through New Music USA, led by Terri Lyne Carrington. 


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Rising Stars

Introducing Bassist Liany Mateo

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This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Liany Mateo started playing the bass when she was 13 years old. “They opened up a performing arts school in Jersey City," she recalled. “At that time, I knew I wanted to play an instrument. I was into '70s punk music, and all of my favorite people in those bands were the (electric) bass players. I really liked the idea of being behind the scenes, having a job, and supporting ...

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Album Review

Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill

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Gregg Hill is a jazz composer favored by several jazz musicians who have recorded entire albums of his work, such as guitarist Randy Napoleon and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here trombonist Michael Dease joins the party with a full album of Hill pieces arranged for a quintet. Hill's writing on this album delves into a wide array of conventional forms such as blues, ballads, and Latin jazz, but always with unique twists and ideas present. Some of his compositions ...

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Liner Notes

Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill

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"Think of any big city," Greg Hill says, introducing the narrative armature of his composition, “The Other Shoe," the denouement and title track of this stimulating collaboration with Michael Dease, who arranged each of Hill's 10 compositions contained herein. “It's 2 in the morning, you're still awake, and your neighbor comes in upstairs. You hear the first clunk when his shoe hits the floor. Then you wait. He may be inebriated. It may take a while to get the other ...

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Joseph Herbst: This is Our Environment

Read "This is Our Environment" reviewed by Josh Deakin


Joseph Herbst has released something truly original with This Is Our Environment. The record itself is a complex intertwining of jazz and spoken word that blends together for a beautiful product. The instrumentals keep the spoken word element alive and flowing throughout the record and offers a channel for Herbst to speak out on some important topics. The spoken word comes out as a slam poetry accompaniment to the coffeehouse instrumentals. The verses are powerful, often politically charged ...

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2023

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Next Level
2021

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