Hard Bop Halloween with the Matt Smiley Quartet

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Celebrate All Hallows Eve in swinging style with the Matt Smiley Quartet (Peter Sommer on saxophone, Steve Denny on piano and Dru Heller on drums) - as they perform two sets of hard bop with a Halloween twist. Bassist, composer and educator Matt Smiley navigates his broad sonic world with imagination, openness and artistic vision. Smiley merges his deep roots in the jazz bass tradition with modern explorations of sound, texture and improvisation from the world of contemporary composition, making him a favorite and frequent collaborator of creative musicians across a variety of musical genres.As a performer, Smiley has toured nationally and internationally, appearing on stages, festival performances and university residencies in the United States, Costa Rica and the Netherlands. He has performed with bandleaders and composers including David Murray, Terrell Stafford, Christian Wolff, Greg Osby, Vinny Golia, Tony Malaby, Walter Thompson and Sam Newsome. Matt recently completed a doctorate at the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently serves as a lecturer in the jazz studies department at Boulder.