Jazz Articles about Joe Maneri

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Joe Maneri, Tyson Rogers & Jacob Braverman: In The Shadow. First Visit

by Neri Pollastri
September 15, 2025

Classe 1927, scomparso nel 2009, il clarinettista e sassofonista Joe Maneri è stato per gran parte della propria vita noto soprattutto come docente, attività alla quale si dedicò con intensità. Solo alla metà dell'ultimo decennio del secolo, cioè verso i suoi settant'anni, una serie di dischi con etichette europee come Leo, Hat Hut e --soprattutto --ECM (il primo per questa, Three Man Walking, è del 1996), rivelarono al mondo la sua singolare personalità artistica, sviluppata durante i lunghi anni di ...

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Joe Maneri - Peter Dolger: Peace Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 15, 2008

Se qualcuno cerca un disco adatto per un blindfold test di quelli “tosti", per incastrare l'amico saccente che tutto conosce del jazz d'avanguardia, ecco serviti sul piatto i ventiquattrominuti di questo Peace Concert, duo tra il sax contralto di Mat Maneri e la batteria di Peter Dolger. Pregustatevi già la faccia del malcapitato di fronte al pigolare irrequieto del sassofono sopra gli accenti dei tamburi… ma chi saranno sti due? E soprattutto, quando è stato registrato quest'incontro? Non si sa ...

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Maneri/Maneri/Phillips: Angles of Repose

by Ty Cumbie
October 7, 2004

Angles of Repose is the brand new release of a 2-year-old recording made at Chapelle Sainte Philomène, an old chapel in the south of France. Mat and dad Joe Maneri brought the veteran bassist Barre Phillips into the fold for these very personal music-making sessions, and ECM saw fit to share the results with us. The fine recording only hints at what must have been a gorgeous session, but the downside of playing in a church, I suppose, is an ...

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Joe Maneri: Serial Autobiography

by AAJ Staff
September 8, 2004

Preface Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory.In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose.But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of yourcontinuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being. ~ Daisaku Ikeda At some point in life everyone will encounter events requiring struggle. That struggle ...

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A Fireside Chat with Joe Maneri

by AAJ Staff
September 8, 2004

Perception is reality. But perception is an unfortunate consequence of opinion and rarely is opinion validated by substance. And perception of Joe Maneri corresponds with his lamentable mainstream obscurity. However, Maneri's obscurity is not his failure, but our own.

All About Jazz: Let's start from the beginning.

Joe Maneri: Music was the only thing that was interesting to me. But I suppose it was because my mother played opera on the radio everyday and I was attracted to it. And ...

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Joe Maneri/Barre Phillips/Mat Maneri: Angles Of Repose

by AAJ Staff
July 23, 2004

For decades, the Boston-based musician Joe Maneri has pursued his singular vision of a freely improvised music based on extensive use of microtones. He often includes his son Mat in his projects. On Angles Of Repose , the Maneris are joined by the prodigiously gifted bassist Barre Phillips in a program of ten free improvisations.

These performances unfold gradually, often with one of the musicians playing a phrase, and the others reacting with variations on the opening phrase. The elder ...

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Joe Maneri/Barre Phillips/Mat Maneri: Angles of Repose

by John Kelman
July 11, 2004

Even the most organic music, in the hands of certain players, can take on a completely other-worldly tinge, somehow managing to feel both rooted in reality yet evocative of alien vistas. Reedman Joe Maneri has been exercising that neck of the woods over a fifty-year career that has seen him emerge as one of the progenitors of modern creative music. Where creative music differs from free jazz is that while improvisation is equally paramount, there is nothing to tie it, ...