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Matt Brewer

Matt Brewer is a double bassist, electric bassist, composer, and educator whose leader trios and sextets complement extensive ensemble work.

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Photo source · Photo: Dirk Neven, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Career Overview

About Matt Brewer

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music identifies Brewer as a jazz-bass faculty member whose formative teachers included John Clayton, Rodney Whitaker, and Ben Wolfe. Its profile connects his early professional work to touring with Greg Osby and later work with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and the SFJAZZ Collective.[1]

Criss Cross Jazz documents three Brewer leader albums. Mythology and Unspoken use larger ensembles for his original compositions, while Ganymede pares the format to a bass, tenor-saxophone, and drums trio with Mark Shim and Damion Reid.[2][3][4]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, bassist, and composer

Matt Brewer leader ensembles

Brewer's Criss Cross catalog moves from the six-piece instrumentation of Mythology to a compact trio on Ganymede, keeping his writing at the center of each session.[3][4]

Bassist

Greg Osby groups

Brewer's conservatory profile names his first substantial touring experience with Greg Osby and points listeners to the Blue Note recording Channel Three.[1]

Bassist and jazz-bass educator

SFJAZZ Collective and conservatory teaching

SFCM places Brewer in its Roots, Jazz, and American Music department and identifies the SFJAZZ Collective among his ongoing ensemble contexts.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2014 · Criss Cross Jazz

Mythology

Leader, bassist, and composer

Brewer's leader debut brings Mark Turner, Steve Lehman, Lage Lund, David Virelles, and Marcus Gilmore together for a program dominated by his compositions.[3]

Release details

2016 · Criss Cross Jazz

Unspoken

Leader, bassist, and composer

The second Criss Cross leader album continues Brewer's ensemble-centered writing and sits between Mythology and the later trio record Ganymede.[2]

Release details

2019 · Criss Cross Jazz

Ganymede

Trio leader, bassist, and composer

Brewer leads Mark Shim and Damion Reid through originals and pieces by Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, Ornette Coleman, and Dewey Redman.[4]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Criss Cross leader catalog

Browse Brewer's three leader albums and his additional appearances for the label.

Mythology on Bandcamp

Stream or purchase Brewer's first leader album through the label's authorized Bandcamp edition.

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

[1] Faculty profile and recording guide
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
[2] Label artist and session catalog
Criss Cross Jazz
[3] Mythology release and personnel page
Criss Cross Jazz
[4] Ganymede release and personnel page
Criss Cross Jazz