July 10, 2008 | Matana @ glows in the dark.wordpress.com
Matana inagurates a new section of this wonderful blog that asks the same questions to various different soundmakers from around the world.

May 20, 2008 | Matana Nominated for a JJA award
Matana has been nominated as a finalist for the Jazz Journalist Association's Jazz Award for the category of Up and Coming Musician of the Year. Winners will be announced on June 18th.

April 21, 2008 | Matana in this months Issue of All About Jazz Los Angeles

March 11, 2008 | Matana in todays Wall Street Journal
nice piece on Chicago music traditions.

March 09, 2008 | Matana in NY Times
nice write up on Matana's new release: The Chicago Project mentioned in todays issue of the New York Times....

March 09, 2008 | Matana in this months issue of Jazzwise Magazine
on newstands now!

February 20, 2008 | Matana's Chicago Project reviewed in the March Issue of DownBeat
On newstands now!

February 20, 2008 | Matana Profiled in the London Gaurdian
Matana profiled by British wonderscribe Kevin Le Gendre

January 21, 2008 | Listen to Matana live on BBC Radio 6
Duo improvisations with the great UK bassist Tom Mason in support of Matana's upcoming recording release: The Chicago Project

January 21, 2008 | recent review
A wonderful live review by the UK Gaurdian's John Fordham

January 14, 2008 | Matana nominated for an Alpert Award in the Arts!

January 01, 2008 | Review of Matana's Chicago project in the Janaury Issue of All About Jazz
though Matana's record the Chicago Project does not come out uintil late Feb. it was been previewed in the local NYC publication All About Jazz and also picked as one of the best new releases of 2008.

January 01, 2008 | Matana's Chicago Project reviewed in Jan Issue of the Wire
on newstands now.

January 01, 2008 | Matana's project picked as one of the best performances of 2007
Matana's WITNESS picked as one of the best performances of 2007.

December 04, 2007 | recent review of Matana's solo recording Lines for Lacy....

August 11, 2007 | Matana mentioned in recent review of Chicago performance.....

July 24, 2007 | Matana's recent solo show written about here....
Matana recently performed selctions from Volume 1 of her Art4YourEar Solo series-- Lines for Lacy at THE YARD.... read a snippet about it here...

July 02, 2007 | Matana Interview....
Matana was recently interviewed by wonderful Ian O. of Attack The Radio. Check it out!

June 21, 2007 | Recent review of Matana's recent COIN COIN Performance
Matana recently performed a chapter of her blood narrative in Montreal Canada a few weekends ago. Witness, composer and pianist, David Ryshpan writes a great honest review of Matana's process. Check it out.

June 11, 2007 | Matana featured in the July issue of Downbeat magazine
A nice article on Matana done by philly based writer extraordinaire Shaun Brady... On newstands all over the world! pick up your copy today!

May 28, 2007 | Matana mentioned in the June issue of Jazz Times
Check out the June "gig" column written by the always incisive word craftsmaster Nate Chinen. Matana never in a million years thought she'd see her name next to Oprah Winfreys! Check it out!

March 21, 2007 | Matana starts online journal
Matana is keeping a temporary online journal about the artistic evolution she is experiencing based on her blood narrative project--Coin Coin. Check it out!

March 20, 2007 | Interesting dialogue spurred by some of Matana's words....
Matana's essay " Hello Black Folks, can you hear me?" seems to be making it's way around the blogosphere....... Check out a great missive written about it here.

March 14, 2007 | Another nice write up on Mississippi Moonchile....
The outstanding composer and band leader Darcy James Argue did anice write up about the 2nd Chapter of Coin Coin-- Mississippi Moonchile

March 09, 2007 | Matana's upcoming Philadelphia Performance profiled in Philadelphia Daily...
nice article by the wonderful writer Shaun Brady

March 07, 2007 | Matana's most recent performance of Gens de Couleur libre written about here....
The awesome sound artist Taylor Ho Bynum writes about chapter one of Matana's blood narrative

February 10, 2007 | Matana mentioned in recent piece on emerging chicago soundmakers
An interesting article from the chicago Sun-Times written about Chicago's current emerging, innovative and daring creative music lineage by propehtic jazz scribe John Litwieler...

February 01, 2007 | Tune in Wednesday Feb 7th 89.9 FM-- Matana to be a guest DJ on WKCRs Muscian show
see calendar for details.

January 17, 2007 | Listen to Matana speak about her project Coin Coin...
This is an archival piece that was just recently brought to our attention. This interview was done before the 1st premiere of chapter 1 of Matana's Coin Coin last year. More Coin Coin coming very soon in 07, so keep your eyes posted here at matanaroberts.com for updates!

December 29, 2006 | Matana mentioned in this months issue of Jazz Times
Hear Matana comment about the ups and downs of MY SPACE madness in a recent article done by Jazz Times writer Christopher Porter.

December 29, 2006 | Matana on WKCR this sunday....
When Matana first arrived in NYC she eeked out a living playing her interpretation of Bach partitas, sonatas and cello suites in the under belly of NYC.

This Sunday music scribe Kurt Gottschalk will be doing a three-hour segment during WCKR's Bach marathon, playing radical, ridiculous and sublime reinterpretations of Bach's music. Banjos, turntables, synthesizers and brain waves will all collide under the weight of the master. Matana will join Kurt in the studio for a short talk and live performance, in preparation of her 2007 release of her Art For Your Ear: Vol II--NYC UNDERGROUND. Be sure to tune in!!!
12 noon on WKCR 89.9 FM

December 13, 2006 | Matana's upcoming hometown performance profiled in Time Out Chicago
Read music journalist Matthew Lurie's wonderful write-up about Matana's upcoming chi town shows.....

December 07, 2006 | Chapter 2 of Matana's Coin Coin blood narrative-- Mississippi Moonchile-- reviewed in the NY Times....
Jazz writer Nate Chinen does a wonderful review of Matana's 2nd "chapter" of her Coin Coin blood narrative which was performed this past Tuesday at Tonic.....

November 28, 2006 | Matana featured in this weeks issue of Time Out New York
Music journalist Hank Shteamer does a nice piece on Matana about her upcoming performance at Tonic on December 5th. Hope to see you there!!!

November 09, 2006 | Matana profiled...
Read jazz journalist Ron Netsky's interview of Matana's upcoming show in Rochester.

October 24, 2006 | Hear Matana in her home town...
Hey Chicago--- hear Matana interviewed about her music tonight on
What Is This Thing Called Jazz: Adventures in Modern Music with Lofton A. Emenari III

WHPK 88.5 FM

October 13, 2006 | Matana interviewed on Veganica
Matana practices a vegetarian lifestyle. Growing up on Chicago's south side she got to see first hand what restricted access to alternative health resources was doing to her African American community at large, in the form of modern illness and social violence. This is one of the many reasons why she chose to become a vegetarian. Because of this she has developed a keen interest in exploring and deconstructing issues that connect access of health resources to ideas of privilege and social class issues on a national and global level.

hear her speak on this as well as developmental issues surrounding her musical path.


the show also features an interview with writer and scholar Amie Breeze Harper about her Sistah Vegan Anthology project which Matana is also a part of.

September 26, 2006 | Summer/Fall
Matana was profiled in the summer issue of the publication Signal to Noise. Available at bookstores worldwide.
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"Chapter" 2 of Matana's ongoing family narrative Coin Coin (Mississippi Moonchile) was reviewed in the recent issue of Jazz Improv magazine.


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Matana was just commissioned to write a new piece that will be part of The Brecht Forum’s Neues Cabaret Series in 2007. She will be using this commission to create the next chapter of Coin Coin—her in progress familial musical narrative. The chapter entitled “Trail of a Tear”, a solo work for saxophone with interactive projections will chronicle her family’s struggle on the first Native American removal of the mid 1800’s.
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The leaderless collaborative trio that Matana is a member of—Sticks and Stones—was recently mentioned in the September issue of Jazz Times as part of the blindfold test for the dancer extraordinaire—Savion Glover. Check it out!
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Matana contributed the article Vegan Nutrition and the Jazz Musician to the Summer/Fall Music issue of Herbivore Magazine.


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