Lifted from his 2022 album ‘Soul Assassin’, ‘Nightcrawler’ by Matt Willard is the kind of hard driving track that fits perfectly for smooth jazz fans who don’t want their smooth jazz too smooth.
Indeed the aim of this 24 year old sax player is to put a different spin on what we recognise as smooth jazz by blending in elements of rock, pop, R&B, and jazz. ‘Soul Assassin’ (and the singles that have already been drawn down from it) is the perfect place to see what this looks like
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