Acid Jazz presents the second volume of their Jazz Sessions series with the first 
album from the Matt Berry Trio, with Matt Berry joined by band members 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 album 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, drawing influence 
from the electronic experiments of Miles Davis and the melancholy of Satie, to 
create another moment of musical beauty from Matt’s curious and ever-moving 
musical mind.
The Jazz Sessions series was conceived by Acid Jazz founder Ed Piller as a return 
to the jazz roots of the label. The first release came from former Style Council 
drummer Steve White, with his first album as leader ’Soul Drums’, further 
releases will follow over the next year