Matty Matlock

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Field	Value
name	Matty Matlock
image	Ray Bauduc, Herschel Evans, Bob Haggard, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, Matty Matlock, Howard Theatre, Washington D.C., ca. 1941.jpg
caption	Ray Bauduc, Herschel Evans, Bob Haggard, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, Matty Matlock, Howard Theatre, Washington D.C., ca. 1941.
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth_name	Julian Clifton Matlock
birth_date
death_date
origin	USA Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.
instrument	Saxophone
Clarinet
genre	Dixieland
Swing
years_active	1950s – 1970s
associated_acts	Matty Matlock's All Stars
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Julian Clifton "Matty" Matlock (April 27, 1907 – June 14, 1978) was an American Dixieland jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and arranger.

Early years

Matlock was born in Paducah, Kentucky, April 27, 1907, and raised in Nashville beginning in 1917. He began playing clarinet when he was 12.

Career

From 1929 to 1934, Matlock replaced Benny Goodman in the Ben Pollack band doing arrangements and performing on clarinet.

Matlock was one of the main arrangers for Bob Crosby's band. He had joined Crosby's group in 1935 as clarinettist, playing with both the main Crosby band and the smaller Bobcats group, but "he was often seconded to write full-time for the orchestra and the Bobcats." He stayed with Crosby until the band broke up in 1942. Matlock's entry in The Rough Guide to Jazz says of him (in part): "Matty Matlock was, with Irving Fazola, the most inspired and spontaneous clarinettist in the Dixieland style, and as a truly original arranger he perfected the sound of 'arranged white Dixieland' as we know it today."

After the dissolution of Crosby's group, Matlock worked in Los Angeles, playing for recordings made by a variety of Dixieland groups.

Death

Matlock died June 14, 1978, in Los Angeles, California.

Select discography

;As bandleader

Dixieland (Douglass Phonodisc)
Four-Button Dixie (Douglass Phonodisc, 1959) [credited as Matty Matlock and the Paducah Patrol]
They Made It Twice As Nice As Paradise And They Called It Dixieland (Douglass Phonodisc)

;With Bing Crosby

Play a Simple Melody / Sam's Song (also with Gary Crosby) (Decca Records)
Moonlight Bay (also with Gary Crosby) (Decca Records)
In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (also with Jane Wyman) (Decca Records)
Bing with a Beat (RCA Records)

;With Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book (Verve Records)

;With Ray Heindorf

Pete Kelly's Blues (Columbia Records)

;With Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack's Pick-A-Rib Boys: Dixieland (Savoy Records)
Dixieland Vols. 1, 2 & 3 (Savoy Records)

;With Beverly Jenkins

Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife The Blues Singer (Impulse!)

References

(1960). "The Encyclopedia of Jazz". Bonanza Books.
(2004). "The Rough Guide to Jazz". Rough Guides.
(1981). "The Big Bands". Schirmer Books.
(2011). "Blue Notes: Profiles of Jazz Personalities". Wipf and Stock Publishers.
(2012). "Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets: Cinemajazzamatazz". Routledge.
(1998). "Almanac of Famous People". Gale.

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