Matthew Halsall

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Critic Consensus

Based on 5 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Matthew Halsall is rated as a watchable live performer, with shows that lack distinction.

ON TOUR

Wimborne St Giles Estate, Dorset, United Kingdom (August 15); Parkteateret, Oslo, Norway (August 24);

FESTIVALS IN 2024

Glastonbury Festival 2024

June 26 - 30, 2024

North Sea Jazz Festival 2024

July 12 - 14, 2024

We Out Here Festival 2024

August 15 - 18, 2024

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Latest Release

An Ever Changing View (8 September 2023)

Artist Info

Genre

jazz

Origin

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom (11 September 1983) (9/11/1983)

Bio

Manchester based, DJ, bandleader and trumpeter Matthew Halsall is one of the UK‚Äôs brightest talents. A gifted trumpeter with a beautiful, expressive tone, his music draws on his love of the transcendental, spiritual and modal jazz of Alice and John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, as well as the glories of ‚Äò60s British jazz. His previous albums ‚ÄòSending My Love‚Äô and‚Ä¶

Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Vanguard Online (UK)

September 15, 2023

Matthew Halsall – Live In Leeds 2023 – “twisted into a taut missile directing energy through lips and fingers”

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Jazzwise (UK)

May 13, 2022

The Manchester trumpet star lit up the hallowed north London venue with his brand of spiritual jazz

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Knack Focus (Belgium)

July 10, 2016

Brussels, Belgium

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Jazzwise (UK)

June 19, 2014

Matthew Halsall Gondwana Orchestra raise spirits at The House of St. Barnabas

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The Arts Desk (UK)

January 25, 2013

Among the former “Woman in the OGroves” is inspired by a midnight taxi ride through southern Italy passing an African woman by the highway among the ogroves trading her sex.

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