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Rich Matteson-Red Mitchell: Life's a Take

Read "Life's a Take" reviewed by Jack Bowers


It’s almost as hard to comprehend that this buoyant album was recorded almost 15 years ago as it is to accept the fact that neither Rich Matteson (“the world’s greatest Jazz euphonium player”) nor Red Mitchell (“one of the world’s two greatest bassists to share that surname”) is no longer with us. Ironically, the session’s scurrying, bluesy title tune, “Life’s a Take,” was dedicated to Fred Crane, a longtime friend and colleague who passed away shortly before Rich and Red ...

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Rich Matteson Sextet: "Pardon Our Dust, We're Making Changes"

Read ""Pardon Our Dust, We're Making Changes"" reviewed by Jack Bowers


If the late Rich Matteson had chosen performing instead of education as a career, he could’ve challenged harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans for top honors each year in Down Beat magazine’s “miscellaneous instruments” category. Matteson, who established the Jazz Studies program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, often joked that he was “the world’s greatest Jazz euphonium player” (because he was, of course, the only one). Rich was definitely the first Jazz euphonium player I ever heard (at the ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Life's a Take

Four Leaf Clover Records
1999

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"Pardon Our Dust,...

Four Leaf Clover Records
1999

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Easy Street

Cove Records
1980

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The Art Of...

Cove Records
1974

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The Art Of...

Cove Records
1974

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