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Matt Clark

Matt Clark is a Bay Area jazz pianist, Hammond organist, accompanist, recording musician, clinician, and educator with extensive ensemble and festival work.

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Career Overview

About Matt Clark

California Jazz Conservatory identifies Clark as a piano instructor and accompanist with a jazz-studies degree from Oberlin. Its faculty profile documents performances and recordings with artists including Bobby Hutcherson, Benny Golson, John Faddis, Eddie Marshall, and Joshua Redman.[1]

Saxophonist Steve Heckman's official discography provides a focused recording thread: Clark appears on piano for Born to Be Blue, moves to Hammond B-3 on Search for Peace, and shares the duo album Some Other Time / Slow Café, which includes one Clark composition.[2][3][4]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Pianist, Hammond organist, and duo partner

Steve Heckman groups

Three official release pages document Clark across quintet, organ, and saxophone-piano duo configurations.[2][3][4]

Piano instructor and accompanist

California Jazz Conservatory

Clark teaches and accompanies in the Berkeley institution's Jazzschool programs.[1]

Pianist, clinician, and ensemble instructor

Festival and workshop practice

The faculty biography documents touring, festival appearances, jazz-history lectures, and ensemble instruction in the Bay Area and beyond.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2013 · Jazzed Media

Born to Be Blue

Pianist with the Steve Heckman Quartet and Quintet

Heckman's official release page credits Clark on piano with Howard Alden, Marcus Shelby, and Akira Tana.[2]

Release details

2014 · Jazzed Media

Search for Peace

Hammond B-3 organist with the Steve Heckman Quintet

The follow-up session shifts Clark from piano to Hammond B-3 within Heckman's guitar-and-saxophone quintet.[3]

Release details

2017 · World City Music

Some Other Time / Slow Café

Co-leader, pianist, and composer with Steve Heckman

The saxophone-piano duo album includes Clark's composition Foregone Conclusions alongside standards and Heckman originals.[4]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Some Other Time / Slow Café

Open the duo's official album guide for personnel, repertoire, and Clark's composition credit.

Search for Peace

Explore the official quintet page documenting Clark's Hammond B-3 role and the full track sequence.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Matt Clark. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

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. [1] Faculty biography, touring, and teaching

    California Jazz Conservatory

  2. [2] Born to Be Blue personnel and recording notes

    Steve Heckman

  3. [3] Search for Peace personnel and recording notes

    Steve Heckman

  4. [4] Some Other Time / Slow Café personnel and notes

    Steve Heckman