Mat Mathews

Throughout his career, Mat Mathews fought an uphill battle to obtain the accordion accepted in bop-oriented jazz. He discovered to try out music through the Nazi profession, and following the battle finished, Mathews was influenced to try out jazz when he noticed a radio transmit of Joe Mooney. He worked well locally in Holland including especially using the Millers from 1947-50. After shifting to NY in 1952, he come up with a quartet that for a while featured (and launched) the youthful Herbie Mann on flute and tenor. Mathews’ additional sidemen included Artwork Farmer, Julius Watkins, Joe Puma, Oscar Pettiford, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke. Furthermore to making information like a innovator, Mathews also documented with Carmen McRae from 1954-55. By the finish of the 10 years he was mainly working like a studio room musician, and in 1964 Mathews came back to holland. His importance to jazz significantly lessened as he offers primarily worked well in the studios as a new player, arranger and maker, but Mathews’ shows in the 1950s produced a solid case for the accordion in jazz. Mathews documented like a innovator for the Dutch Vehicle Wouw label (four game titles in 1944), Brunswick (1953-54), Dawn (1956), Savoy (a 1957 day with four French horn players), Verve (live at Newport in 1957), JJM, Style and, back holland, Ariola (1975).