Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts is an American sound experimentalist, alto saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and visual artist born in 1975 on the South Side of Chicago, based in New York. A former member of the AACM and the Black Rock Coalition, their major work is Coin Coin — a multi-chapter long-form project exploring memory, ancestry, and history, released on Constellation Records. Chapters include Gens de Couleur Libres (2011), Mississippi Moonchile, River Run Thee (2015), and Memphis (2019). Roberts also co-led the trio Sticks and Stones with Chad Taylor and Joshua Abrams.