Matt Ulery's Loom performs at the Smart as part of the tenth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a weekend of free performances at cultural venues throughout the neighborhood.  

About the Performers

Earning his degree in composition from Roosevelt University, Chicago-based bassist and composer, Matt Ulery has led and written for the band Loom, for 10 years.

He has played in various musical genres from jazz, classical, rock, pop, to gospel and folk music and has worked with such musicians as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maria Schneider, Howard Levy, Winton Marsalis, Curtis Fuller, Carl Allen, and Patricia Barber. In addition to upright and electric bass, Matt has played tuba and keyboards. He is also a member of the Eastern Blok, Grazyna Auguscik Group, and Zach Brock’s Formation arrival / departure.

National Public Radio said of Matt that he “writes beautiful music in an unpretentious way. . . . intricate stuff, with interlocking parts and segmented structures. It often borrows from Eastern European scales, orchestral tone colors, folky textures. But it doesn't sound like calculus class, as in some other ambitious works of modern jazz. It never seems to stray too far away from pretty melody over undulating rhythms, and that deceptive simplicity sets it apart.” Matt has produced six albums of all original music; his most recent CDs are Wake An Echo and In the Ivory.

Loom includes Matt Ulery, bass; with other musicians TBA.

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