Tropes by Matt Mayhall

Matt Mayhall is a drummer and composer based in Los Angeles. Like many instrumentalists on the L.A. scene, Matt has embraced a full range of musical pursuits. He’s toured with The Both - a group with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo - since the release of their album in 2014. He’s performed with Liz Phair, John Doe of X, Dar Williams, and Susanna Hoffs. Yet he’s also played with an enviable list of jazz musicians, players like keyboardists Larry Goldings and Adam Benjamin, bassists Tim Lefebvre and Eric Revis, guitarist Anthony Wilson, and saxophonists Vinny Golia and Chris Speed.

For a number of years he was in Spain, the syncretic alt-country/slowcore group led by Josh Haden, son of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden. Matt has the distinction of being the drummer on Charlie Haden’s final recorded performance, Spain’s song “You And I.” He can also be seen in the IFC television series Documentary Now! as a member of the fictitious soft-rock band The Blue Jean Committee, produced and led by Saturday Night Live veterans Fred Armisen and Bill Hader.

Over the past decade, Matt has employed this all-of-the-above strategy to great effect, and with that confirmation, it’s time for him to finally release an album of his own.

The album is called Tropes, and features some of Matt’s musical kindred spirits: guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Brian Blade Fellowship), and bassist Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann, Allen Toussaint, Meshell Ndegeocello), with appearances by keyboardist Jeff Babko (Frank Ocean, Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music), and tenor saxophonist Chris Speed (Human Feel, Claudia Quintet). It will be released on Speed's SKIRL RECORDS imprint on November 4th.

Matt Mayhall is a drummer, composer, session musician, and educator in Los Angeles, CA and Portland, OR. He is active in jazz, improvised music, singer-songwriter, folk, indie rock, indie pop, American roots music and performance art.

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