Matt Penman, double bass

Matt, age 31, has been living in New York since moving there from his native New Zealand in 1995. He is a member of the San Francisco Jazz Collective under the direction of Joshua Redman, as well as the bands of Nils Wogram, Madeleine Peyroux and Bill McHenry.

Matt can be heard on about 60 CDs on various labels, and his compositions are featured on two co-led projects, 'Urbanism' (Ode Records), and 'Flipside' (Naxos Jazz), and on his debut CD as a leader 'The Unquiet' (Fresh Sound).

He is the current ping-pong and scrabble champion of the group and the only member to succesfully produce his own quality red wine in the bathtub of his Brooklyn apartment. It is based on a mixture of Cabernet and his own secret grape type.