Matt Berry feat. Phill Scragg and Graham Mann – Everything’s Peachy

Acid Jazz presents the second volume of their Jazz Sessions series with the first album from the Matt Berry Trio, joined by Phill Scragg and Graham Mann on ‘Everything’s Peachy’. When not creating numerous indelible characters on the screen, Matt Berry has forged a remarkable, diverse and acclaimed career as a recording artist. Following the widely lauded ‘Heard Noises’ (2025) and a collaboration with KPM ‘Simplicity’ (2023), he returns in yet another musical guise as leader of a studio based mid-century jazz adjacent trio ‘Everything Peachy’ is a 12-part instrumental suite, inspired by ‘the Sky King’ (American folk hero Richard “Beebo” Russell), who stole a large aircraft with no flight training, performing stunts and manoeuvres, before crashing to his own demise, and takes its name from his response to air traffic control. Conveying variously the chaos, nostalgia, regret and acceptance of Russell’s maiden flight, it is an open, freeform and flowing composition.