Mat Maneri Quartet | Dust
12 February 2022, online
Mat Maneri | viola
Randy Peterson | drums
John Hébert | bass
Lucian Ban | piano
Randy Peterson | drums
John Hébert | bass
Lucian Ban | piano
Mat Maneri Quartet | Dust opened our 2021-2022 Chamber Jazz season. The streaming, edited by Lucian Ban, our curator, brings together some of the best moments of the concert and the discussion that followed, moderated by Adrian Lăcătuș.
At Multicultural Center, Mat Maneri and his quartet played music from Dust album, released late 2019 by Sunnyside Records, along with new music written and recorder in the Hudson Valley for the group’s follow up album ASH.
Mat Maneri’s music continues from the lineage of master improvisers Paul Bley and Paul Motian (with whom Mr. Maneri has played in the past) with a sound that is distinctly his own and developed over years of discovery and practice. Released by Sunnyside records Dust features Maneri’s stunning original music in a program of open-ended compositions that showcase his unique marriage of jazz and microtonal music, and has won instant critical acclaim in The Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Jazz Times, All About Jazz, etc.
Over the course of a quarter century career American violist Mat Maneri has “changed the way the jazz world listens to the violin and viola” (AllAboutJazz.com). Today, he has established an international reputation as one of the most original artists of his generation, possessing an “endlessly fascinating” (The Wire) sound and approach. Over the course of his career, Maneri has worked with 20th century icons of improvised music including his father Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, Tim Berne, William Parker, Craig Taborn and many others.
The ensemble features Maneri’s longest collaborator, drummer Randy Peterson, with whom he has been playing since the late 1980s in Boston and with whom he has a near telepathic musical connection. Pianist Lucian Ban has been a close associate for the past decade and an important springboard for ideas. The ensemble needed just the right bass player to balance it out and John Hébert fit perfectly.
Over the course of a quarter century career American violist Mat Maneri has “changed the way the jazz world listens to the violin and viola” (AllAboutJazz.com). Today, he has established an international reputation as one of the most original artists of his generation, possessing an “endlessly fascinating” (The Wire) sound and approach. Over the course of his career, Maneri has worked with 20th century icons of improvised music including his father Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, Tim Berne, William Parker, Craig Taborn and many others.
The ensemble features Maneri’s longest collaborator, drummer Randy Peterson, with whom he has been playing since the late 1980s in Boston and with whom he has a near telepathic musical connection. Pianist Lucian Ban has been a close associate for the past decade and an important springboard for ideas. The ensemble needed just the right bass player to balance it out and John Hébert fit perfectly.
Foto: Antonio Porcar Cano