WR4779
Pittsburg
Matthew Stevens
Whirlwind Recordings
655498297908
WHR 165660
JAZZ
1
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He may not have known it before, but Toronto-born, New York-based guitarist Matthew Stevens, prized for his forceful, distinctive electric sound on Esperanza Spalding’s groundbreaking Emily’s D+Evolution, Exposure and the GRAMMY-winning 12 Little Spells, was an ideal candidate to make an album fully devoted to solo acoustic guitar: the intimate, unadorned, straightforwardly titled Pittsburgh.
Stevens’ previous two outings, Woodwork (2015) and Preverbal (2017), made use of steel-string acoustic as a vibrant textural contrast, notably on “Brothers” and “Our Reunion” (featuring Spalding as guest and co-composer). Still, a solo acoustic album seemed to Stevens like a “maybe someday” prospect, if that. Then came the convergence of two major events — the COVID-19 pandemic and a fractured elbow
Recorded in Pittsburgh PA, January 28 and March 4, 2021
FORMAT | CD |
DISCS NUMBER | 1 |
LABEL CODE | WR4779 |
STYLE | JAZZ |