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Matt White - Super Villain Jazz Band - Release June 30 - "Worlds Wide"

"Worlds Wide" is the follow-up to trumpeter/composer Matt White's debut album, The Super Villain Jazz Band. In "Worlds Wide", Matt reconvenes his Nashville-based group to perform music inspired by places real and imaginary, from waterfalls and valleys to desolate planets, a desperate trip to rescue lost luggage, and music inspired by the Gullah music of St. Helena Island.

Personnel:
Matt White - trumpet
Evan Cobb - tenor saxophone
Don Aliquo - alto saxophone
Roy Agee - trombone
Joe Davidian - piano
Jonathan Wires - bass
Jim White - drums
Steve Bailey - electric bass
Victor Wooten - electric bass

Tracks:
1. Departure
2. Godafass/Lunar Landscape
3. The Black Valley
4. The Copenhagen Garment Bad Incident
5. Adam in the Garden
6. Ride on Jesus
7. Wade in the Water
8. Spectra 9. Area X
10. aMUSEing

Praise for The Super Villain Jazz Band:
"4 Stars" - Downbeat Magazine

"It heralds the arrival of a new major voice in jazz, one whose name belongs in the pantheon of its true heroes."
- Russ Musto, New York Jazz Record

"In The Super Villain Jazz Band, Matt White validates himself as a legitimate jazz composer assisted by a group of outstanding jazz sidemen in an exceptional collection of jazz compositions."
- Jeffrey Uhrich, Allaboutjazz.com
Trumpeter, Composer, and Educator Dr. Matthew White is currently Professor of Trumpet, Coordinator of Jazz and Commercial Music, and Director of Ensembles at Coastal Carolina University (Conway, SC) and was previously a first call freelance and session musician in Nashville and Miami. He holds degrees from the University of North Florida and The University of Miami and has appeared on numerous albums, radio broadcasts, and television shows, performing with: Bob Mintzer, Jeff Coffin, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Liebman, Rihanna, Oscar DeLeon, Brian Setzer, the Mavericks, Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten, Howard Levy, and various other artists, ensembles, symphonies, and big bands.
 
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