Matt Von Roderick is an American trumpeter, rapper, singer and recording artist. In 2003, he was named Jazz Artist of the Year by the Independent Music Awards. In 2007 Matt was listed as "Taking Jazz into the Future" by Downbeat Magazine. In 2010 the Huffington Post declared "Matt Von Roderick Makes Jazz Dangerous Again". Matt was born into a musical family in the small town of Lyndonville, Vermont. Matt's father, Alvin Shulman, is a violinist and first generation American born in New York City, of Russian and Polish descent. Matt's mother, born Elizabeth von Stackelberg in Munich, Germany, is of German, Irish and British descent. She emigrated to America after World War II, and is a piano teacher. Matt is Jewish, and has cited his Bar Mitzvah as being a formative musical experience. In 2007, Matt released his first commercial album, So It Goes, under the name Matt Shulman, through the independent label Jaggo records. With the album came comparisons to "a postmillennial Chet Baker" from The New York Times, which also cited him as among the significant "New Voices from Jazz's Emerging Generation." 

October 7th, 1974 in (Age 49)