Matt Brewer

Born in Oklahoma City in 1983 and raised in Albuquerque, Matt Brewer trained very early in a family environment linked to jazz before establishing himself on the New York scene as a bassist with a flexible, precise and deeply anchored in collective interaction playing. After attending Interlochen Arts Academy and then the Juilliard School’s Jazz Studies program, which he left to devote himself to the stage, Matt Brewer developed a language situated between post-bop, contemporary jazz and open writing. His path has led him to work with musicians such as Greg Osby, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Steve Coleman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Aaron Parks or David Sánchez, in contexts ranging from acoustic quartet to more adventurous formations. Close to the Jazz Gallery circle in New York, he has also pursued a career as a composer with his albums Mythology (2014), Unspoken (2016) and Ganymede (2019), all released on Criss Cross Jazz. Matt Brewer also co-directed The Colour of Intention in 2020 with Lewis Wright and Marcus Gilmore, and subsequently participated in many notable projects of contemporary jazz, notably with Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Wendel, Tigran Hamasyan and the group Out Of/Into, heard on Motion I (2024) and Motion II (2025). Since 2018, Matt Brewer has also taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.