Apostle of Shellac: Mathew “Fat Cat” Rivera
Michael Steinman December 30, 2020
Born in 1996, in Louisville, Kentucky, Matthew Rivera is making jazz vibrate to new audiences in many ways. I met him first as a sound-phenomenon
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Born in 1996, in Louisville, Kentucky, Matthew Rivera is making jazz vibrate to new audiences in many ways. I met him first as a sound-phenomenon
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In the history of jazz, people who do not play instruments do as much, in different ways, to sustain the art without getting equal credit.
