Jazz Articles about Joe Maneri

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Maneri Ensemble: Going To Church

by Glenn Astarita
October 25, 2002

With this release, Joe Maneri (woodwinds) and his equally well-known son, Mat (viola) enlist a modern jazz/free improvising super group. However, history dictates that raw talent is not a prerequisite for success. Although that notion serves as the antithesis to what is conveyed here, on this fine program consisting of open-ended dialogue and yearning lines. The artists’ interactions most assuredly emanate from the spirit within. The message is complex yet starkly personalized – where all semblances of rhythm are reduced ...

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Maneri/Morris/Maneri: Out Right Now

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 2001

With this new release, the Swiss 'hatOLOGY' record label serves up six pieces culled form a live 1995 performance, featuring the trio's permutations of microtonal passages, call and response techniques, and unorthodox harmonic fabrications. On the 26-minute opener, “Some And Then Some," tenor saxophonist Joe Maneri renders an amalgamation of half-tones and abstract, blues-based lines along with emotive howls and shrieks, as violinist Mat Maneri and guitarist Joe Morris engage in circular, three-way dialogue atop a bevy of intertwining textures. ...

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Joe Maneri - Mat Maneri - Barre Phillips: Tales Of Rohnlief

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2000

Tales Of Rohnlief represents woodwind specialist Joe Maneri’s fourth recording for the ECM label. Along with his son, violinist and respected solo artist Mat Maneri and the venerable bassist Barre Phillips, the musicians once again pursue microtonal passages and highly conversational interplay while also utilizing space and undulating sequences or implied meter to their advantage.

Electric violinist Mat Maneri’s brief jagged lines and Barre Phillips arco-bass and deft picking provides good contrast on the piece titled, “Rohnlief” and throughout the ...

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Joe Maneri Quartet: Tenderly

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 1999

Joe Maneri is a real original. A professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, he has developed a microtonal system involving a 72-note scale, but he is by no means merely a theoretician; on this disc he brings theory to thrilling life in a quartet with his son Mat, who plays a 6-string electric violin, bassist Ed Schuller, and drummer Randy Peterson.

Joe Maneri himself plays alto and tenor saxophones and clarinet. Occasionally on all three horns (even on ...