Born 1970 in New York, Matthew Garrison, along with his mother Roberta Escamilla Garrison and sister Maia Claire Garrison, spent the first seven years of his life immersed in a community of musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists and poets. After the death of his father Jimmy Garrison (John Coltrane’s bassist), his family relocated to Rome, Italy where he began to study piano and bass guitar. In 1988 Matthew returned to the United States and lived with his godfather Jack DeJohnette for...
