Matt Munisteri is a Brooklyn native, who began playing the banjo at age ten. He was almost certainly the only picker on his block. He's been a guitar player for many, many years in and around a wide range of Jazz, and early Americana music scenes. For four years he was the guitarist and principal songwriter for the eclectic/retro band The Flying Neutrinos, and served as music director for the band's successful 2000 release The Hotel Child. He's recorded and performed with the singer Jimmy Scott. Matt is a regular member of Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, with whom he's played Carnegie Hall, The 92nd Street Y, Town Hall, and many jazz festivals and broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. He stays busy, and sometimes pops up in the company of The Jazz Composer's Collective, Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, Will Holshouser and Musette Explosion, violinist Jenny Scheinman, guitarist Frank Vignola, and he recently performed and recorded with The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He leads a band called Brock Mumford and all kinds of stuff can be found at www.brockmumford.com.