Matthew Rivera is a Brooklyn-based archivist, researcher, and writer originally from Louisville, Kentucky. Aiming to expand the audience for jazz of the 78-era, he started the Hot Club of New York, a community that listens to jazz on 78rpm records and promotes the music to new audiences. Rivera got his start at Columbia University’s radio station, WKCR, where he studied with jazz historian Phil Schaap. For nearly three years, he catalogued and digitized Schaap’s collection of audio recordings, the largest oral history archive ever assembled by one person. Rivera regularly works on projects with the Louis Armstrong House Museum, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has written on jazz for the New York Review of Books and BOMB, and he is currently writing the first book-length biography of the musician Frankie Newton. He still hosts a jazz radio program, going ten years strong, on WKCR.