Jazz Articles about Mat Maneri Trio

Mat Maneri Trio: So What?

by Robert Spencer
September 1, 1999

Mat Maneri, the world's challenging microtonal electric violinist, explains that he once studied Baroque violin, in which the bowing style creates an “almost horn like sound." He goes on to explain that “I'm not trying to get a horn sound now, but I am trying to get horn phrasing." Certainly there are moments on So What? when Maneris' violin sounds uncannily like a horn, whether with a conventional tone or even featuring growling multiphonics, as he does right at the ...