Jazz Articles about Mat Maneri

The Mat Maneri Trio: Fifty-one Sorrows

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2000

Violinist Mat Maneri continues his assault on modern improvised jazz with this new Trio outing titled, Fifty-One Sorrows. Here Maneri enlists fellow New Englanders, drummer Randy Peterson and bassist Ed Schuller, who are both at the pinnacle of their respective crafts while making leaps and bounds within modern jazz circles these days. The Trio is in top form on Fifty-One Sorrows especially on compositions such as Ornette Coleman’s “Tone Dialing” which boasts a hybrid swing/free-jazz motif while Maneri reworks the ...