Matt has played with various artists from Ringo to Joe Satriani. Matt recently produced an album for Rick Springfield titled - Venus In Overdrive. He grew up in Detroit Michigan playing with The Kingston trio, The Ink Spots, and many different jazz groups and big bands as well as local bar bands and original bands. He then attended college at North Texas State until 1981 when he went on tour with Maynard Ferguson. He recorded two albums with Maynard, "Storm" and "Live In San Fransisco". In 1983 he moved to Los Angeles and has performed and recorded with , Ringo Starr, Boz Skaggs, Gino Vanelli, Julian Lennon, Brian Wilson, Steve Perry, Rick Springfield, Peter Frampton, Johnny Mathis, Phyllis Diller!!, his own band A440, Sheena Easton, Jeff Lorber, Dave Koz, The TV show Friends, The Tracey Ullman show, Disney's "The Weekenders", "Just Shoot Me", David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Don Henley, The Michael Thompson band, Evan and Jared, Cristopher Cross, The Captain and Tennille, Kombo, Takashi Utsunomiya, ELO with Jeff Lyne, and various others. He now lives in Orange County California with his wife Chariya and two boys, Brandon and Joshua.