Matt Jorgensen

Born: October 13, 1972

Since moving back to Seattle in 2002 after 10 years in New York City, Matt Jorgensen has been active in all aspects of the Seattle jazz scene. He has recorded four CD ’s with his group Matt Jorgensen +451 for Origin Records, and has toured extensively from New York to LA and in 2003 picked up an award for “Best Acoustic Jazz Group” by Earshot Jazz.

As a sideman he is frequently called on by an impressive list of musicians including Peter Bernstein, Eric Alexander, Bill Mays, Vincent Herring, George Colligan, Reggie Workman, Tim Ries, Chuck Leavell and others.

Sunny

By Kim Maguire

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sunny

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Age In A New Space

by Paul Rauch
February 19, 2025

The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting jazz and jazz culture primarily at the local level, came to life in a backroom bar in the city's arts district on Capitol Hill in October 2021. The city, the nation, the world, was just beginning to fully climb out of the social slumber imposed by the COVID-19 ...

Thomas Marriott: Screen Time

by Paul Rauch
January 17, 2025

Seattle-based trumpeter Thomas Marriott has been producing notable jazz recordings for more than a quarter century now with remarkable consistency in terms of both musicianship and composition of original works. After a decade in New York as a young musician, following his winning of the prestigious Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition, Marriott settled back in ...

My Favorite Things

By Kim Maguire

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: My Favorite Things.

Vocalist Kim Maguire Releases Holiday Single, 'My Favorite Things'

December 11, 2024

Kim Maguire��s latest single, “My Favorite Things," blends the nuanced precision of jazz, the fluidity of dance, and the emotional expression of theatre. This seamless integration is no surprise, given Kim��s extensive background in all three disciplines��her true favorite things. The sweeping vocal brushstrokes of this new release reflect her unique ability to merge jazz with ...

Seen on The Scene

By Jared T Hall

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Seen on the Scene (6:17) 2. Mating Call (5:44) 3. Theme from Love Story (8:31) 4. Thinker (5:51) 5. Coral Way (5:42) 6. If You Could See Me Now (2:41) 7. Force for Good (4:34) 8. Farewell (2:16) 9. If You Could See Me Now (6:49)

Jazz Honors The Beatles

by AAJ Staff
April 13, 2023

All About Jazz is honoring The Fab Four in the year of the 60th anniversary of the release of their first album (Please Please Me). This collective tribute was originally published in September 2009--as a living document, we'll add more quotes & stories over time (see how-to in comments section). We also compiled a companion playlist ...

Rich Thompson: Who Do You Have to Know?

by Dan McClenaghan
March 26, 2023

The title of drummer Rich Thompson's 2023 release is Who Do You Have To Know?. The answer to that: John Bishop and Matt Jorgensen, the team that runs the Origin and OA2 Records labels that boast prolific and consistently good outputs, featuring an array of well-known and a goodly number of not-so-well-known, but always interesting, often ...

It's Not Business, It's Personal

By Jim Knapp

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Miami Vince; Afterthought; The Presence of Absence; Kumasi; Gray Skies; Forward Motion; Modal Horizon; Nerds of Steel.