Jazz Articles about Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri/Evan Parker/Lucian Ban: Sounding Tears

by Dan McClenaghan
May 16, 2017

Viola-ist Mat Maneri has spent a quarter century carving out an artistic niche that marries avant-garde jazz with microtonal music, crafting off-center masterworks like Blue Decco (Thirsty Ear, 2000), Sustain (Thirsty Ear, 2002), and teaming with pianist Lucian Ban on Transylvanian Concert (ECM Records, 2013) and sitting in on a compelling sideman slot on Ches Smith's The Bell (ECM Records, 2016). On Sounding Tears, Maneri's first recording as a leader in twelve years, the viola-ist brings in, again, ...

Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri Tuba Project featuring Billy Hart at Cornelia St. Café

by Tyran Grillo
March 1, 2016

Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri Tuba Project featuring Billy Hart Cornelia St. Café Greenwich Village, NY February 13, 2016 Violist Mat Maneri and pianist Lucian Ban, whose Transylvanian Concert (released 2013 on ECM) gave listeners access to some of the most forward-thinking chamber jazz in recent memory, teamed up with drummer Billy Hart, altoist Bruce Williams, and tuba master Bob Stewart at Cornelia St. Café for a night of lightly composed, heavily improvised music.

Lucian Ban – Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 29, 2013

Nato in Romania nel 1969 (quindi esattamente coetaneo di Mat Maneri), Lucian Ban viene da studi classici (e si sente), dopo di che, nel '99, si è trasferito a New York, abbracciando (anche) la causa dello sperimentalismo jazz. I frutti di questo processo si avvertono compiutamente in questo bellissimo album live, che lo pone di fatto sotto un cono di luce finora mancatogli. L'acquisto è di quelli che non si dimenticano: quattro temi suoi, due del violista (che arrangia anche ...

Motian Sickness: For the Love of Sarah

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2012

All'inizio del 2011 lo String Choir di Joel Harrison aveva pubblicato un suggestivo album sulle composizioni di Paul Motian (intitolato Music of Paul Motian, appunto) legando i suoni (elettrici e non) della chitarra sua e di Liberty Ellman, a quelli di un eterodosso quartetto d'archi comprendente anche Dana Leong al violoncello e Mat Maneri alla viola. A un anno esatto di distanza e a pochi giorni dalle scomparsa del grande batterista, scopriamo con piacere un nuovo lavoro coi suoi temi ...

Mat Maneri / Denman Maroney: Distich

by Nic Jones
August 10, 2007

Distich is a duo testing the limitations of its instrumentation. Mat Maneri brings his 5-string viola to bear and Denman Maroney his piano, on music that to all intents and purposes is concerned largely with new sonic possibilities.

This is especially pertinent in view of what might be called Maroney's extended use of the piano, through which he utilizes other elements of the instrument apart from the keyboard itself. The end result is a program of music as soundscape, in ...

François Carrier: Happening

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 2, 2006

François Carrier e il suo trio perseguono da anni una rigorosa ricerca nel campo della musica d’improvvisazione di estrazione jazzistica. Il sassofonista canadese, che in passato ha registrato e collaborato con il compianto Dewey Redman, Uri Caine, Gary Peacock e Paul Bley, approda alla Leo Records, che documenta con un doppio CD una lunga esibizione del 2005 a Montréal. Alla formazione, priva di strumenti armonici, si aggregano le risorse timbriche della viola amplificata di Mat Maneri e gli strumenti etnici ...

Mat Maneri: Pentagon

by John Kelman
October 24, 2005

Striking a curious balance between the accessible and the abstruse, violinist/violist Mat Maneri's latest release is a study in contrast. Ranging from abstract free improvisation to off-kilter orchestral beauty, Pentagon is a fair summation of Maneri's career to date--though he's still in only his mid-thirties. Considering Maneri began playing with his father, microtonal explorer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Maneri, at the age of seven, consolidating thirty years of experience becomes less strange. But what he does here is ...