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  • Matthew Fogg & Nicole Hajj: Live At The Azure Cafe - Music Review

    by Liz Singer from www.hotindienews.com, posted December 15, 2008 Throughout "Live at the Azure Cafe", the latest album by Matthew Fogg and Nicole Hajj, Hajj's voice is crystal-clear and stunningly jazzy, while Fogg's piano skills are solidly spect...
  • Matthew Fogg: First Yamaha Artist In Education Endorsee

    from Accent Magazine Winter 2008, Volume 68 Yamaha is proud to announce 28-year old jazz pianist and teacher Matthew Fogg is the first endorsee under a new program titled Artists in Education. Living up to Yamaha's long and dedicated history of support...
  • Success Stories: Matt Fogg - Teacher And Musician

    from The Maine Switch January 10, 2008 by Amber Olesen Living on the West End in Portland, married with a 4-month-old son, Matthew Fogg juggles a very busy lifestyle. Both a musician and teacher, this 29-year-old has a long list of artistic activities ...
  • Twenty Is Plenty

    from Port City LIFE November 2007 by Mindy Favreau To counter the undeserved but perhaps prevailing wisdom that says the current group of recent college graduates-sometimes called Generation Y, sometimes called Millennials-is (fill in the blank; self-a...
  • Thumbs Up — Play The Jazz, Wear The Blues

    from The Times Record Strike up the band for Matt Fogg, the former Morse High School choral director, for becoming the first recipient of the Yamaha company's Artists in Education endorsement. The Jazz Times reported last week that Fogg, 28 and now a t...
  • Morgan Fogg & Grimmet: This Is What You Want - Indie Music Review

    from Hot Indie News by Darkside This Is What You Want by Morgan Fogg and Grimmett is best described as having three sections: vocals, lyrics and musicianship. These three distinct categories are varied stylistically and in terms of talent, which ma...
  • 'Gigging With Mr. Fogg: 'Music has brought me to a lot of cool places,' entertainer and educator says

    from The Portland Forecaster - March 7, 2007 by Peter Smith Portland - It all started when he was in the fourth grade. Matt Fogg went to his high school auditorium for a performance of the wind ensemble. What he heard was the coolest thing ever (at lea...
  • Matt Fogg: After School, By The Bike Racks, Don't Bring Your Mom

    from Keyboard Magazine - January 2007 by Ed Coury In 1903, George Bernard Shaw wrote, “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.” If George were around today he’d be eating those words, after meeting Matt Fogg. The 28-year-old music teacher does mor...
  • Demolition

    from www.goodtimesmag.com - December 12, 2006 by Syl Nathan Matt Fogg is clearly one of the region’s preeminent musicians. It appears he can play anything – jazz, blues, swing, pop, you name it. Once again, he displays his varied musicianship, shar...
  • Review Of Live At The Azure Cafe

    from www.muzikreviews.com - September 20, 2006 by Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck Matthew Fogg & Nicole Hajj had a history before this album came together. They met and found a mutual admiration and respect for one thing, the art form of jazz. It...
  • Want It All: Morgan and Grimmett find themselves in the Fogg

    from The Phoenix - August 2, 2006 by Sam Pfeifle Morgan Fogg & Grimmett, like Medeski Martin & Wood, eschew the comma on their debut release together, but they embrace the period on This Is What You Want. Seriously, it's got a period at the...
  • The Night Is Young

    from The Portland Press Herald - August 2, 2006 by Aimsel L. Ponti I listened to "This Is What You Want," the debut release from Morgan, Fogg & Grimmett, over dinner on Monday night and quickly realized I had made a good decision. Matt Fogg ...
  • First Review of Morgan, Fogg, & Grimmett's This Is What You Want

    from www.MuzikReviews.com by Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck This is one of those great CDs where I have a hard time figuring out where to start, which is a good omen for the artists. Morgan Fogg & Grimmett say This Is What You Want, and you know...
  • The Jazzman of Orr's Island: Matt Fogg Steps Quietly Into The Limelight

    from Coastal Journal - Issue 34: August 25, 2005 by Earl Swinson HARPSWELL - Can you remember the day your life's path changed? Jazz pianist Matt Fogg of Orr's Island can. Fogg's CD, Live at the Azure Cafe, recorded with vocalist Nicole Hajj and ...
  • Review of Live At The Azure Cafe

    from www.JazzNow.com - August, 2005 by Linda Goshay The dynamic duo of pianist Matt Fogg and vocalist Nicole Hajj can normally be heard performing in upscale clubs and restaurants in Maine and New Hampshire. For this live debut, recorded in October 200...
  • Review of Live At The Azure Cafe

    from Good Times Magazine - Issue 18; June 9 - July 7, 2005 by Syl Nathan Independently produced but as major league as any self-produced disc you'll ever hear, Live at the Azure Cafe is certainly a treat for contemporary jazz lovers - but is tuneful an...
  • Creating Student Musicians - One Note At A Time

    from The Times Record; January 29, 2003 by Christopher Cousins Morse High School's two 20-something music teachers may have been untested rookies when they arrived, but the respect they've gained from the students, teachers and parents in their 18 mont...
  • He's Biddeford's Jazz Man

    from The Journal Tribune; January 7, 2000 by Tammy Wells Matthew Fogg was just 16 years old when he took a job as the piano player in a Top 40 band on weekends at the Red Jacket Inn in North Conway, N.H. His parents gulped. But they bought him a car...
  • The Music Still Plays

    From a UNH scholarship announcement Jazz Pianist Tommy Gallant is gone now, spirited away all too quickly in September, 1998, in his 63rd year of life. While the world of jazz in the Seacoast Region lives on, his absence is profoundly felt by the large...