Mat Maneri
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
and viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin
Baritone violin
A Baritone violin is a member of the violin family and has two specific meanings:* a violin tuned an octave below conventional violin tuning . This is commonly accomplished by stringing a standard violin with heavy gauge strings, sometimes specially manufactured for this purpose. Oversize...
. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri
Joe Maneri
Joseph Gabriel Esther "Joe" Maneri , was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son....
.
Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
, Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp is an American pianist, composer and bandleader.Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown....
, Joe Morris
Joe Morris
Joe Morris is the name of:* Joe Morris , British film writer, producer and director. * Joe Morris , American jazz guitarist * Joe Morris , American studio drummer...
, Joe Maneri, Gerald Cleaver
Gerald Cleaver (musician)
Gerald Cleaver is an African-American jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan. He joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995...
, Tim Berne
Tim Berne
Tim Berne is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.Described by critic Thom Jurek as commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s...
, Borah Bergman
Borah Bergman
Borah Bergman is an American free jazz pianist.Bergman learned clarinet as a child, and did not commence studies on piano until adulthood. He developed his left hand playing to the point where he became essentially ambidextrous as a pianist, and can play equally fast in both hands...
, Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
, William Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...
, Michael Formanek
Michael Formanek
Michael Formanek is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California and associated with the jazz scene in New York City....
, John Lockwood
John Lockwood
John Lockwood may refer to:*John Lockwood *John Cutts Lockwood , English Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament 1931–1935, 1950–1955...
, as well as with his own trio, quartet, and quintet. He has also played on various band releases: Club d'Elf, Decoupage, Brewed by Noon, Paul Motian
Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
's Electric Bebop Band, Buffalo Collision.
Maneri started studying violin at the age of five and received a full scholarship as the principal violinist at Walnut Hill High School and New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music
The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest independent school of music in the United States.The conservatory is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its Preparatory School as well as the School of...
, he went on to pursue a professional career in jazz music.
He started releasing records as a leader in 1996 and has performed and recorded worldwide. Maneri has worked with Ed Schuller
Ed Schuller
Edwin G. Schuller is an American jazz bassist and composer.Schuller was born in New York City; his father is Gunther Schuller and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller. Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child and switched to bass at age 15; that same year he had his first...
, John Medeski
John Medeski
Anthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboards player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood...
, Roy Campbell
Roy Campbell, Jr.
Roy Campbell, Jr. is versatile trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, though he has also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. At age fifteen Campbell began learning to play trumpet and...
, Paul Motian, Robin Williamson
Robin Williamson
Robin Williamson is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, songwriter and storyteller, who first made his name as a founder member of The Incredible String Band.-Career:...
, Drew Gress
Drew Gress
Drew Gress is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey, raised in the Philadelphia area, and currently based in New York City.-Biography:...
, Tony Malaby
Tony Malaby
Tony Malaby is a post-bop jazz tenor saxophonist. Malaby moved to New York City in 1995 and has played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias’s Open Loose, Fred Hersch’s Trio + 2 and Walt Whitman...
, Ben Monder
Ben Monder
-Biography:Monder attended the University of Miami. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians including Lee Konitz, Toots Thielmans, Paul Motian and Maria Schneider....
, Barre Phillips
Barre Phillips
Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....
, Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre is a double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation....
, Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
, Craig Taborn
Craig Taborn
Craig Taborn is an American keyboardist and composer. Playing piano, organ, and Moog synthesizer, Taborn has worked mostly in jazz, although he also does dark ambient and techno music....
, Ethan Iverson
Ethan Iverson
Ethan Iverson is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus, with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King....
, David King
David King (musician)
David King is a drummer/ composer from Minneapolis. He is best known for being a founding member of the jazz groups The Bad Plus and Happy Apple although he is active in many other projects including free jazz collective Buffalo Collision with NYC "Downtown" legends Tim Berne and Hank Roberts and...
and many others.
Maneri has taught privately and through the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York.
Mat lives with his wife Lucy in Brooklyn. He is the father of Weronika Maneri.
As leader
- In Time with Pandelis Karayorgis (Leo, 1993)
- Fever Bed (Leo, 1996)
- Acceptance (hatOLOGY, 1996)
- Fifty-One Sorrows (Leo, 1997)
- Reaching with Steven Lantner (Leo, 1997)
- Light Trigger with Randy Peterson (No More, 1998)
- So What? (hatOLOGY, 1998)
- TrinityTrinity (Mat Maneri album)Trinity is a solo album by American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player Mat Maneri recorded in 1999 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1999) - Blue Decco (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
- For Consequence (Leo, 2001)
- Sustain with Joe McPhee (Thirsty Ear, 2002)
- For Flowers, 2004
- Chamber Trio, 2005
- Self-luminous, 2005
- Happening, 2005
As sideman
With Borah BergmanBorah Bergman
Borah Bergman is an American free jazz pianist.Bergman learned clarinet as a child, and did not commence studies on piano until adulthood. He developed his left hand playing to the point where he became essentially ambidextrous as a pianist, and can play equally fast in both hands...
- The River of Sounds (Boxholder, 2000)
With Steve Dalachinsky
Steve Dalachinsky
Steve Dalachinsky is a New York downtown poet. He is active in the poetry, music, art and music- Free jazz scene.Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946...
- Incomplete Directions (Knitting Factory, 1998)
With Heinz Geisser and Guerino Mazzola
Guerino Mazzola
Guerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, jazz pianist as well as book writer.He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and...
- Heliopolis (Cadence, 1999)
With Whit Dickey
Whit Dickey
Whit Dickey is a free jazz drummer. He has recorded albums as a bandleader, or with David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp and others.- Notes :...
- The Nommonsemble: Life Cycle (AUM Fidelity, 2000)
With Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin American tenor saxophonist. Born in Wichita, Kansas, raised in Baltimore, Maryland from the age of two. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were also musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, California and became a cult figure after his death in the little known...
- Vanishing Point (hat HUT, 2000)
With Guillermo Gregorio
- Approximately (hat HUT, 1995)
- Red Cube(d) (hat HUT, 1996)
With Masashi Harada
- Obliteration at the End of Multiplication (Leo, 1998)
With Pandelis Karayorgis
- The Other Name (Motive, 1992)
- Lift and Poise (Leo, 1996)
- Distambiguation (Leo, 2001)
With Joe Maneri
Joe Maneri
Joseph Gabriel Esther "Joe" Maneri , was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son....
- Kalavinka (Cochlea, 1989)
- Get Ready to Receive Yourself (Leo, 1993)
- Tenderly (hat HUT, 1993)
- Coming Down the Mountain (hat HUT, 1993)
- Let the Horse Go (Leo, 1995)
- Three Men WalkingThree Men WalkingThree Men Walking is an album by American composer, composer, saxophone and clarinet player Joe Maneri with guitarst Joe Morris and violinist Mat Maneri recorded in 1995 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
with Joe Morris (ECM, 1995) - Out Right Now with Joe Morris (hatOLOGY, 1996)
- In Full CryIn Full CryIn Full Cry is an album by American composer, saxophonist and clarinet player Joe Maneri with guitarist Joe Morris and violinist Mat Maneri recorded in 1996 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1996) - BlessedBlessed (Joe Maneri album)Blessed is an album by American composer, saxophonist and clarinet player Joe Maneri with his son, violinist Mat Maneri recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1997) - The Trio Concerts (Leo, 1997)
- Tales of RohnliefTales of RohnliefTales of Rohnlief is an album by American composer, saxophonist and clarinet player Joe Maneri with bassist Barre Phillips and violinist Mat Maneri recorded in 1998 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1998) - A Cloud of Black Birds (AUM Fidelity, 1998)
- Soul Search (AUM Fidelity, 1999)
- At the Old Office (Knitting Factory, 1999)
- Angles of ReposeAngles of ReposeAngles of Repose is an album by American composer, saxophonist and clarinet player Joe Maneri with bassist Barre Phillips and violinist Mat Maneri recorded in 2002 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 2002) - Going To Church (AUM Fidelity, 2002)
With Joe Morris
Joe Morris (guitarist)
Joe Morris is an American jazz guitarist. In addition to leading his own groups, he has recorded with William Parker, Whit Dickey, Rob Brown, Joe Maneri and others...
- Underthru (Omnitone, 1999
With Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp is an American pianist, composer and bandleader.Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown....
- Critical Mass (2.13.61, 1994)
- The Flow of X (2.13.61, 1995)
- By the Law of Music (hat HUT, 1996)
- Gravitational Systems (hat Hut, 1998)
- Expansion, Power, Release (hat HUT, 1999)
with Spring Heel Jack
Spring Heel Jack
Spring Heel Jack is an English electronic music group consisting of John Coxon and Ashley Wales.Formed in 1993 in London, England, Spring Heel Jack began their career exploring drum and bass and jungle, but have since branched out into free improvisation and jazz, collaborating with many acclaimed...
- Masses (Thirsty Ear, 2001)
With Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
- Algonquin (Bridge, 1999)
With Keith Yaun
- Countersink (Leo, 1998)
- Amen: Improvisations on Messiaen (Boxholder, 1999)