Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri in 2007.

Mat Maneri, born on October 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York is an American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri. ^[1]

Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, Joe Maneri, Gerald Cleaver, Tim Berne, Borah Bergman, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Michael Formanek, John Lockwood, 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's Electric Bebop Band, Buffalo Collision.^[2]

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, he went on to pursue a professional career in jazz music.^[3]

He started releasing records as a leader in 1996 and has performed and recorded worldwide. Maneri has worked with Ed Schuller, John Medeski, Roy Campbell, Paul Motian, Robin Williamson, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, Ethan Iverson, David King 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.

Partial Discography

• Fever Bed, Leo Records, 1996
• Fifty-one Sorrows, 1999
• Obliteration At The End Of Multiplication, 2002
• Disambiguation, 2002
• Sustain, 2002
• For Consequence 2003
• For Flowers, 2004
• Algonquin Bridge, 2004
• Chamber Trio, 2005
• Self-luminous, 2005
• Happening, 2005
• Trinity, ECM
• Blue Decco, Thirsty Ear
• So What, hatOLOGY
• Acceptance, hatOLOGY
• Going To Church, AUM Fidelity
• Out right now, hatOLOGY
• Soul Search, AUM Fidelity
• Gravitation System, hatOLOGY
• Tales of Rohnlief, ECM
• Reaching, Leo
• Blessed, ECM
• Lift and Poise, Leo
• Three Men Walking, ECM
• Pentagon, Thirsty Ear
• Iron Stone, ECM
• Tenderly, hatHUT
• Coming Down the MOuntain, hat HUT
• In Full Cry, ECM
• Get Ready to Receive Yourself, Leo
• In Time, Leo
• Light Trigger, No More
• By The Law of Music
• Metal Rat
• Flow Of X
• A Cloud of Black Birds
• Underthru
• At the Old Office
• Expansion, Power, Release
• Masses
• Distambulation
• JAM
• Threads
• Treats For The Nightwalker
• 2 miles a day, Yeah Yeah Records, 2007

External links

• "Mat Maneri - January, 2001 interview with Alan Jones". Bagatellen. http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/interviews/000082.html. Retrieved 2006-06-05. 
• 2002 All About Jazz interview
• Maneri's MySpace page

References

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