''In Time'' is an album by jazz violinist

Mat Maneri Mat Maneri (born October 4, 1969) is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri and Sonja Maneri. Career Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Guerino Mazzola, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, G ...

and pianist

Pandelis Karayorgis Pandelis Karayorgis (born 1962) is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist, composer and educator. Life and career Karayorgis was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. He began classical piano lessons at the age of 9, but by the end of high school he wa ...

, recorded in 1993 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of

Leo Records Leo Records is a British record company and label, founded in 1979, which releases jazz from Russian, American and British musicians. It concentrates on free jazz. This label is different from the Leo Records that was formed by Edward Vesala i ...

. The album includes six original pieces and two interpretations of

Thelonious Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the Jazz standard, standard jazz repertoire, includ ...

composition "Ugly Beauty".''In Time''
at Pandelis Karayorgis

Reception

In his review for

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, Thom Jurek states: "As a work of restrained beauty and subtle textures and colors, it is nearly a masterpiece... This was an auspicious meeting of two young minds who had already in 1994 established their own voices on a burgeoning jazz improv scene." ''

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'' says that the album "is delicately beautiful and thoughtful, almost as a classical duo in timbre and dynamics, but dealing with a language that is far from classical."

Track listing

# "Ugly Beauty #1" (

) – 4:40 # "Speaking" (Pandelis Karayorgis) – 9:31 # "Savigny Platz" (Mat Maneri) – 8:42 # "Part III of a Name" (Pandelis Karayorgis) – 6:46 # "Miranda" (Mat Maneri) – 5:48 # "In Time" (Pandelis Karayorgis) – 9:29 # "Blue Seven" (Mat Maneri) – 12:07 # "Ugly Beauty #2" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:10

Personnel

electric violin An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument intentionally made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body. It can also refer to a violin fi ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

References

{{Authority control 1994 albums 1994 collaborative albums Mat Maneri albums Pandelis Karayorgis albums Leo Records albums