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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Photo source · Official artist media

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

Sun, Sep 20, 4:30 PM

SYLVIA CUENCA’S BRIDGING GENERATIONS

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society · Half Moon Bay

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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 biography, touring, and teaching
California Jazz Conservatory
[2] Born to Be Blue personnel and recording notes
Steve Heckman
[3] Search for Peace personnel and recording notes
Steve Heckman
[4] Some Other Time / Slow Café personnel and notes
Steve Heckman