Musician

Matthew Alec

Born: October 9, 1983

Matthew Alec is a jazz and popular music saxophonist, founder and Executive Producer at Cleveland Time Records, and bandleader for the high-energy jazz fusion group Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric.

Nominated as “Cleveland’s Best Horn Player” by Cleveland Scene Magazine in 2009, Matthew has performed for over 20 years and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Kent State University. He has toured nationally and has opened for a number of A-list acts including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Incubus, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, Keane, Average White Band, Lupe Fiasco, OAR, Ozomatli, Bret Michaels, Rusted Root, and others. He has performed with former Saturday Night Live Musical Director, CBS Orchestra member, and Blues Brothers bandsman Tom “Bones” Malone, internationally-acclaimed bassist Victor Wooten and his brother Roy “Futureman” Wooten, Saturday Night Live trombonist Steve Turre, Kenny G bassist Vail Johnson, Grammy-winning Ohio Players alumni Billy Beck, and Parliament-Funkadelic bassist Ben Powers, Jr. He has recorded with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads member Bernie Worrell and aforementioned Tom "Bones"Malone.

Album

Blue Train (feat. Minus the Alien and Greg Banaszak)

By Matthew Alec

Label: Cleveland Time Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Blue Train (single)

Album

A Bad Rep in the Rubber City

By Matthew Alec

Label: Cleveland Times Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Blue Train (feat. Minus the Alien and Greg Banaszak)

Quantum Entanglement (feat. Greg Banaszak)

Just the Two of Us (feat. Jeremy Voltz)

Gravity (feat. Brian Woods)

Bambu (feat. Greg Banaszak)

Baby You Got Me (feat. Brian Woods)

Blues for McCoy

Whinin�� Boy Moan (feat. Steven Forrest Sanders)

Thinking Out Loud (feat. Brian Woods)

Song of the Day

Blue Train

September 6, 2025

Album: A Bad Rep in the Rubber City
By Matthew Alec
Label: Cleveland Times Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 6:21

News: Recording

Matthew Alec And The Soul Electric - New Release Of Modern Jazz Fusion!

May 7, 2025

Nominated as Cleveland's “best jazz" for 2024 by the Cleveland Music Awards, explosive fusion supergroup Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric bring old school swagger to their fresh, exciting, and innovative blend of jazz, pop, and funk. Led by All About Jazz's #19 “Favorite Living Jazz Saxophonist" for 2024 Matthew Alec, the 7-piece collective is blazing ...

Album

My Funny Valentine

By Brian Woods

Label: Cleveland Time Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: My Funny Valentine (Single)

Album

Chain of Fools: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin

By Matthew Alec

Label: Cleveland Time Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Chain Of Fools

Album

Soul Jazz Classics: Live in 2018

By Matthew Alec

Label: Cleveland Time Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

Harmonic Exploitation

Summertime

Use Me

Feelin' Alright

Mister Magic

Europa

Bambu

Album

Wanton Imbibement

By Matthew Alec

Label: Cleveland Time Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Wanton Imbibement (Single)

Video

The Chicken

Featuring the music of Matthew Alec
Duration: 6:40
February 3, 2023

Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric featuring Tom "Bones" Malone performing "The Chicken" by Pee Wee Ellis. at Cleveland's famed Bop Stop jazz club on February 4, 2022. From the album Live at the Bop Stop!.