Matthew Putman: News/Ideas

The new Wake UP! album, which I produced, and play on one track of, it now available for download on I-Tunes.

On the site of Producer Michael Roderick. http://oneproducerinthecity.typepad.com/one_producer_in_the_city/

The new CD of the band Wake Up! is available. I was lucky enough to Produce it and play on one track. Reviews are aleady good, and the band is now playing festivals, and recording with Ornette Coleman. www.wakeupnyc.com

http://www.amazon.com/Definition-Insanity-Robert-Margolis/dp/B0030EFZZ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265293560&sr=1-1

The 2004 film which Marine and Matthew were Assciate Producers of is now available for download. http://www.amazon.com/The-Definition-of-Insanity/dp/B000I131L6

The Poem "Song of the Urban Thrush", has been published.
http://www.theexternalist.com/Putman_Matthew

check out a poem that has been published. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/masquepublishing/newissue.html

I will be playing regularly at Bistrot Amelot, 80, rue Amelot in the 1th Arr. in Paris. Please contact me if you would like to come

My wife Marine has started a new blog which is has a much wider range than my writings. The very first post addresses anti-semitism. Check it out.
http://marineputman.blogspot.com/

Matthew has launched a new blog on labotories. http://insearchoflabs.blogspot.com

Real free jazz is like water : it flows freely, refreshingly, you can dip your feet in it, submerge in it, drown in it. You can't tell. But the best way to enjoy it, is to make sure you keep afloat (don't swim!) and let the music carry you away, without expectations, without an idea of where you will end up, stop rationalizing (where? what? when? how? ), stop asking questions, stop wondering, just float along. At least that's how I appreciate most of real free jazz, think of Other Dimensions In Music for instance. This album is in the same vein, and I enjoy it at the same level.

The band is led by Demian Richardson on trumpet, with Matthew Putman on piano, David Moss on bass, Federico Ughi on drums, and Daniel Carter on tenor sax, flute, clarinet and trumpet. Ughi and Carter need no introduction: soulful freedom is their natural habitat. Moss has the not so easy task of deciding when and when not to formalise rhythms, and usually he manages to color the music rather than play the beat. Putman does a really great thing on piano, which is possibly the hardest instrument to play in a totally free enviromnent without sounding chaotic or overpowering the soloists, yet he is at his best on the slow "Out Of The Ether". Yet Richardson himself is the star. I did not know him. But his tone is clear and bluesy, in the most traditional sense, yet what he does with it is the strong part: playing phrases heavy with soul and freedom, confident enough to use silence to create a feeling of openness and possibilities. And that defines the very nature of the music : gentle and free, unobtrusive yet full of character, open yet focused. Let it flow and float along ...

Buy from 577 Records.

I am playing on a new album, "Gowanus Recordings" to be released next month on 577. It has been a great experience, and I hope you enjoy the music. Ple give feedback.

The website for the microscopy company I have started along with my father John Putman, is now available. It is a basic starting website. More to come. www.nanotronicsimaging.com

Matthew is an executive board member of the Montauk Observatory. http://www.montaukobservatory.com/

Matthew and Marine have launched the website of the production company Towpath, at www.towpathproductions.com.

In 2004 a Master Class with the late teacher and historian Benjamin Matthews was filmed with some world class singers. This DVD is being prapred for Educational Distribution. It is an inside look at a master teacher and singer.

It was directed by Cedric Cannon and Martin Cespedes, and Produced by Marine and I. please E-mail me at mcputman@gmail.com if you are interested in this.

The Definition of Insanity is being released as a DVD in Switzerland. The DVD can be ordered at www.artfilm.ch or by sending an e-mail to dvd@soapfactory.ch

It is also available at selected bookstores, DVD shops, and arthouse cinemas.

Perdita closed Sunday night at the Lion theatre in New York. This was an incredible experience. Critics an audiences raved, and Pierre-Marec Diennet and the Putmans are considering future productions

Tickets to the play Perdita, which Marine and Matthew Putman are producing at the Lion Theatre off Broadway are now available for sale. go to http://www.ticketcentral.com/showdetails2.asp?showid=1929 for reservations.

The new recording "Perennial" is now available at I-Tunes, and other online venues. These are piano compositions inspired by the landscapes and changing seasons of the Catskill Mountains.