jazzahead! 2019: Matthew Whitaker

Matthew Whitaker (born April 3, 2001) is an American jazz pianist. Blind since birth, he has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the Apollo Theater, where, at 10, he opened for Stevie Wonder.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} Whitaker is the subject of Thrive, a 13-minute documentary about "the prodigious talent and irrepressible spirit of a musically precocious 12-year-old blind boy." ^{[7]    Read more}




Audio: Radio Bremen
Matthew Whitaker (Hammond organ, p, synth)
Marcos Robinson (el-g)
Karim Hutton (el-b)
Isaiah Johnson (dr)