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Mat Maneri Trio: Fifty-one Sorrows
This peculiar duality in Maneri's playing is perhaps most apparent on his homages to Ornette Coleman: the two covers of Ornette's latter-day piece "Tone Dialing." Rendered on baritone violin, its bright Ornetteishness is somewhat obscured, although Maneri does engage in a feisty bit of Ornetteian violin on these tracks. But they do show how much Maneri's subtle microtonal approach fits hand-in-glove with Ornette's own tone-bending harmolodics.
Maneri is joined on this disc by bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Randy Peterson. Peterson can work up quite a lather but is at his most intriguing during the quiet and lugubrious passages, during which all the colors that he adds can be heard most clearly. Schuller, meanwhile, is a marvel. He is content with a subordinate role here, but what a role it is. He breathes together with Maneri, and finds apt replies to his every sally. His all-too-brief solos on "Tone Dialing" are also worthy of note.
But this is a Maneri-led date, and Maneri leads it. Anyone who doesn't yet know the joys of his peerless and original violin playing and his keenly informed but utterly individual improvisational sense should not miss this one.
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Personnel
Mat Maneri
violaMat Maneri; Baritone Violin: Ed Schuller; Bass: Randy Peterson; Drums
Leo Records website: www.atlas.co.uk/leorecords/
Album information
Title: Fifty-one Sorrows | Year Released: 2000 | Record Label: Leo Records
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