Palladium friend Mat Domber, who made Clearwater a center of the jazz universe, is gone

I wanted to share this note from the Suncoast Jazz Classic about the passing of our good friend Mat Domber. I’ll be writing more about Mat and his support for jazz and the Palladium’s jazz programming later this week.  

   Classic & Jazz World Saddened By Loss Of Mat Domber

 

  Suncoast Jazz Classic lost a board member and major festival supporter and the jazz world a “champion of jazz” with the death of Mat Domber. It was a sad day on Sept. 19 when we learned that Mat had lost his battle with cancer.
    Jazz has many “heroes” but few have been as important to the advancement of jazz as Mat Domber and his Arbors Records. Mat has produced and recorded over 400 musicians, staged several sold out Invitational Jazz Parties, directed tours by the renowned Statesmen of Jazz and joined with Jazzdagen Tours in sponsoring the Annual Jazz Alive swinging jazz cruise in December. You might say the Arbors Records catalog is a current historical review of the advancement of jazz since Mat launched Arbors Records in 1989. 
   While his presence will be missed, he leaves behind a legacy of jazz-related support that guarantees that Mat Domber will be remembered and “Classic Jazz Will Live On.”