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 Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex ...

, Guerino Mazzola, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver,

Tim Berne Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones. Biography Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said that ...

Borah Bergman Borah Bergman (December 13, 1926 – October 18, 2012) was an American free jazz pianist. Training and influences Bergman was born in Brooklyn to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents.Kelsey, Chris (December 2004Chris Kelsey ''Borah Bergman: His F ...

, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Michael Formanek, John Lockwood, as well as with his own trio, quartet, and quintet. He also played on various band releases such as: Club d'Elf, Decoupage, Brewed by Noon, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, and Buffalo Collision. Maneri started studying violin at the age of five. He received a full scholarship as the principal violinist at Walnut Hill High School and New England Conservatory of Music, before going on to pursue a professional career in jazz music. He started releasing records as a leader in 1996 and performed and recorded worldwide. Maneri has worked with

Ed Schuller Edwin Gunther Schuller (January 11, 1955) is an American jazz bassist and composer. His father is Gunther Schuller, a composer, horn player, and music professor, and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller. Career A native of New York Ci ...

, John Medeski, Roy Campbell, Paul Motian,

Robin Williamson Robin Duncan Harry Williamson (born 24 November 1943) is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and storyteller who was a founding member of The Incredible String Band. Career Williamson lived in the Fairmilehead area of Edinbur ...

Drew Gress Drew Gress (born November 20, 1959) is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in the Philadelphia area. Biography Gress studied at Towson State University and Manhattan School of Music. In the late 1 ...

Tony Malaby Tony Malaby (born January 12, 1964) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Malaby was born in Tucson, Arizona. He moved to New York City in 1995 and played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, ...

Ben Monder Ben Monder (born May 24, 1962) is an American modern jazz guitarist. Biography Monder started playing guitar when he was eleven, after two years on violin. From 1979–84, he attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music, the University of Miam ...

Barre Phillips Barre Phillips (born October 27, 1934, in San Francisco, California, United States) is an American jazz bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972, he has been based in south ...

Joëlle Léandre Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in Contemporary classical music, new music and free improvisation. In the field of contemporary music, she has perfor ...

Marilyn Crispell Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrot ...

, Craig Taborn,

Ethan Iverson Ethan Iverson (born February 11, 1973) is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the avant-garde jazz trio The Bad Plus with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King. Biography Iverson was born in Menomonie, Wisconsin. ...

, David King and many others. Maneri also taught privately and at the New School.

Discography

As leader

* ''

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'' with Pandelis Karayorgis ( Leo, 1994) * '' Three Men Walking'' (

ECM ECM may refer to: Economics and commerce * Engineering change management * Equity capital markets * Error correction model, an econometric model * European Common Market Mathematics * Elliptic curve method * European Congress of Mathematics ...

, 1995) with Joe Maneri and Joe Morris * '' Out Right Now'' (

hatOLOGY Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, ...

, 1995

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with Joe Maneri and Joe Morris *'' Acceptance ''(hatOLOGY, 1998) * ''

Lift & Poise ''Lift & Poise'', subtitled ''12 Improvised Movements'', is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and violinist Mat Maneri, which was recorded between 1996 and 1997 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. Karayorgis and Maneri p ...

'' (Leo, 1998) with Pandelis Karayorgis * ''

Blessed Blessed may refer to: * The state of having received a blessing * Blessed, a title assigned by the Roman Catholic Church to someone who has been beatified Film and television * ''Blessed'' (2004 film), a 2004 motion picture about a supernatural ...

'' (ECM, 1997) with Mat Maneri * ''Fifty-One Sorrows'' (Leo, 1999) * ''So What'' (Hathut, 1999) * ''Blue Decco'' ( Thirsty Ear, 2000) * ''Fever Bed'' (Leo, 2000) * ''Light Trigger'' (No More, 2000) * ''Tales of Rohnlief'' (ECM, 2000) * ''

Trinity The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the central dogma concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the F ...

'' (ECM, 2001) * '' Disambiguation'' (Leo, 2002) * ''For Consequence'' (Leo, 2003) * ''Jam'' (Hopscotch, 2003) * ''Angles of Repose'' (ECM, 2004) * ''Chamber Trio'' (Leo, 2005) * ''Pentagon'' (Thirsty Ear, 2005) * ''The Iron Stone'' (ECM, 2006) * ''Duos'' ( Harmonia Mundi, 2011) * ''Metamorphosis'' (Leo, 2011) * ''A Violent Dose of Anything'' (Leo, 2013) * ''Transylvanian Concert'' (ECM, 2013) * ''Two Men Walking'' (Leo, 2014) * ''Breaking Point'' (Leo, 2016) * ''The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 2'' (Leo, 2016) * ''The Bell'' (ECM, 2016) * ''Villa Lobos Suite'' (Leo, 2016) * ''Sounding Tears'' with Evan Parker & Lucian Ban (

Clean Feed Clean may refer to: * Cleaning, the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment * Cleanliness, the state of being clean and free from dirt Arts and media Music A ...

, 2017) * ''Vessel in Orbit'' ( AUM Fidelity, 2017)

As sideman

With

* ''The River of Sounds'' (Boxholder, 2000) With

Steve Dalachinsky Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – September 16, 2019) was an American downtown New York City poet, active in the music, art, and free jazz scenes. He wrote poetry for most of his life and read frequently at Michael Dorf's club th ...

* ''Incomplete Directions'' (

Knitting Factory The Knitting Factory is a nightclub in New York City that features eclectic music and entertainment. After opening in 1987, various other locations were opened in the United States. The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, perform ...

, 1998) With

Kris Davis Kris Davis (born 1980) is a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life Davis was born in Vancouver in 1980 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She studied classical piano from the age of six and discovered jazz while a high school student. She ...

* '' Capricorn Climber'' (Clean Feed, 2013) With Heinz Geisser and Guerino Mazzola * ''Heliopolis'' (Cadence, 1999) * ''Chronotomy'' (Blacksaint, 2004) With

Whit Dickey Whit Dickey (born May 28, 1954) is an American drummer. He has recorded albums with David S. Ware and Matthew Shipp. Biography His first album as a leader was ''Transonic Transonic (or transsonic) flow is air flowing around an object at ...

* '' Life Cycle'' (AUM Fidelity, 2001) * ''

Vessel in Orbit ''Vessel in Orbit'' is an album by American jazz drummer Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, and Matthew Shipp recorded in 2016 and released on the Aum Fidelity label. The recording presents a new trio with violist Mat Maneri and pianist Matthew Shipp, who ...

'' (AUM Fidelity, 2017) With

Ellery Eskelin Ellery Eskelin (born August 16, 1959) is an American tenor saxophonist raised in Baltimore, Maryland and residing in New York City. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were both professional musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, ...

* ''Vanishing Point'' (hat HUT, 2000) With

Guillermo Gregorio Guillermo Gregorio (born May 1, 1941, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine jazz and free improvisation clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer. Biography Gregorio was born into a musical family. He became interested in experimental music in the early 196 ...

* ''Approximately'' (hat HUT, 1995) * ''Red Cube(d)'' (hat HUT, 1996) With Masashi Harada * ''Obliteration at the End of Multiplication'' (Leo, 1998) With

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 ...

* ''The Other Name'' (Motive, 1992) With

Russ Lossing Russ Lossing (born 1960) is an American jazz pianist, composer, improviser, arranger, educator, scholar. Early life Lossing was born in Ohio in 1960,Pietaro, John (February 2015) "Russ Lossing". ''The New York City Jazz Record''. p. 7. and is fr ...

* ''Metal Rat'' (Clean Feed, 2000) With Joe Maneri * ''Kalavinka'' (Cochlea, 1989) * ''Get Ready to Receive Yourself'' (Leo, 1993) * ''

Tenderly "Tenderly" is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Written in the key of E as a waltz in time, it has since been performed in 4/4 and has become a popular jazz standard. Notable versions have ...

'' (hatOLOGY, 1993

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* ''

Dahabenzapple ''Dahabenzapple'' is a live album by pianist, saxophonist and composer Joe Maneri which was recorded in 1993 and released on the HatOLOGY label in 1997.Lopez, RMat Maneri discographyaccessed July 18, 2018 996 Year 996 ( CMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Japan * February - Chotoku Incident: Fujiwara no Korechika and Takaie shoot an arrow at Retired Em ...

* ''

Coming Down the Mountain ''Coming Down the Mountain'' is a 2007 British television film which was shown on BBC One, written by Mark Haddon (author of ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'') and directed by Julie Anne Robinson. The television film was bas ...

'' (hatOLOGY, 1993

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* ''Let the Horse Go'' (Leo, 1995) * '' Three Men Walking'' with Joe Morris (ECM, 1995) * ''Out Right Now'' with Joe Morris (hatOLOGY, 1996) * ''

In Full Cry ''In Full Cry'' is an album by the American composer, saxophonist and clarinet player Joe Maneri, with violinist Mat Maneri and the rhythm section of John Lockwood on bass and Randy Peterson on drums. It was recorded in 1996 and released on the E ...

'' (ECM, 1996) * ''

'' (ECM, 1997) * ''The Trio Concerts'' (Leo, 1997) * '' Tales of Rohnlief'' (ECM, 1998) * ''Going to Church'' (AUM Fidelity, 2002) With Joe Morris * ''

You Be Me ''You Be Me'' is an album by the American jazz guitarist Joe Morris, recorded in 1995 and released on the Italian Soul Note label. For the record, Morris expanded to a quartet consisting of the trio with whom he recorded '' Symbolic Gesture'', wit ...

'' (Soul Note, 1997) * '' A Cloud of Black Birds'' (AUM Fidelity, 1998) * '' Underthru'' (OmniTone, 1999) * '' Soul Search'' (AUM Fidelity, 1999) * '' At the Old Office'' (Knitting Factory, 2000) * '' Balance'' (Clean Feed, 2014) With Ivo Perelman * ''A Violent Dose of Anything'' (Leo, 2013) * ''Counterpoint'' (Leo, 2015) * ''Breaking Point'' (Leo, 2016) With Matthew Shipp * ''

Critical Mass In nuclear engineering, a critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. The critical mass of a fissionable material depends upon its nuclear properties (specifically, its nuclear fissi ...

'' (2.13.61, 1995) * '' The Flow of X'' (2.13.61, 1997) * '' By the Law of Music'' (hat HUT, 1997) * '' Gravitational Systems'' (hatOLOGY, 2000) * '' Expansion, Power, Release'' (hatOLOGY, 2001) * '' The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael'' (

Relative Pitch Relative pitch is the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note by comparing it to a reference note and identifying the interval between those two notes. For example, if the note ''Do'' and ''Fa'' is played on a piano, a per ...

, 2015) With

Spring Heel Jack Spring Heel Jack is an English electronic music duo, 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 ...

* ''Masses'' (Thirsty Ear, 2001) With Stone Quartet (

, Roy Campbell,

, Maneri * ''

Live at Vision Festival ''Live at Vision Festival'' is a live album by the Stone Quartet: bassist Joëlle Léandre, trumpeter Roy Campbell, pianist Marilyn Crispell, and violist Mat Maneri. It was recorded in June 2010 at the Vision Festival held at the Abrons Arts Cente ...

'' (Ayler, 2011) With Craig Taborn * '' Junk Magic'' (Thirsty Ear Recordings, 2004) With

* '' Algonquin'' (Bridge, 1999) With

David S. Ware David Spencer Ware (November 7, 1949 – October 18, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Biography Ware was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. While in high school he at ...

* '' Threads'' (Thirsty Ear, 2003) With Keith Yaun * ''Countersink'' (Leo, 1998) * ''Amen: Improvisations on Messiaen'' (Boxholder, 1999) With Ches Smith * ''The Bell'' (ECM, 2016) With Lucian Ban * ''Enesco Re-imagined'' (Sunnyside, 2010) * ''Elevation'' (Sunnyside, 2016)

References

External links

Maneri's MySpace page
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