Wonderful!
author: Cassendre Xavier, CD Baby Artist
i like how thoughtful and mellow this is, yet still complex enough and very well written to be called jazz and classical composition. very impressive!
i'm a friend of Monica McIntyre's and can now hear your contribution to her first CD "Blusolaz" (http://cdbaby.com/cd/mcintyre). congratulations on your quickly growing visibility and success, Matt. by the way, i LOVE the name "arial photograph".
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gentle and melodic; takes chances and pulls off many creative moments.
author: The Philadelphia Inquirer
A 2001 graduate of Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music, Davis takes jazz to some mysterious places on the handsome title track, which seems to borrow from Pat Methany. "Benediction" is gentle and melodic, and "Moments" is filled with free bowing from the strings and a ferocious opening solo from bassist Jeff Pedraz. The group takes chances and pulls off many creative moments.
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author: The Philadelphia Weekly
In the past few years 24-year-old Temple alum Matt Davis has lent his guitar skill to a whole list of Philly jazz luminaries, including Odean Pope, Bobby Zankel, Dave Liebman and Billy Harper. His new septet, Aerial Photograph, takes all of the guitarist's jazz training and apprenticeship and applies it to a neoclassical sound composed for guitar, bass, drums, 2 violins, viola and cello. On the group's self titled debut, Matt Davis' Aerial Photograph, the band sounds a lot like such instrumental units as Clogs, the Rachels and the Kronos Quartet. And there's every reason to believe Davis can climb to similar heights.
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Spacial music with some upbeat, even math rock, rhythms
author: A Fan from live in the Kimmel Center Plaza
Saw them live and bought the CD. Much of it has an aural, spacial wash-of-sound ambience. Then we get these extra beats thrown in for good measure, or violins plucking in unusual syncopation. The CD is the sextet - strings, upright bass, drums, and of course Matt picking on his pleasant electrified guitar. Seeing them live, they added six players - clarinet, flute, flugelhorn, trombone, saxophone, and an additional violin. I look forward to their next CD with this larger ensemble later this year 2004!
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