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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11279/
Please join us at Slought Foundation on Friday, January 14 at 8pm for a live concert by the Mat Maneri Quintet, with Mat Maneri (viola), Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Craig Taborn (Wurlitzer keyboard), Michael Formanek (bass), and Randy Peterson (drums). Please note that this concert preceeds the ensemble's recording session for ECM Records.
Mat Maneri, born 1969 in Brooklyn, studied with Juilliard Quartet co-founder Robert Koff and with bass virtuoso Miroslav Vitous, and began playing with his father at the age of 14. Mat is largely responsible for the fact that Joe Maneri's work finally found a hearing, but he is more than his father's most eloquent disciple. Pianist Matthew Shipp has called Mat “one of the five greatest improvisers on the planet” and recognition that the younger Maneri is a figure of central importance in the contemporary music scene. The long list of musicians with whom he has worked includes Cecil Taylor, Joe McPhee, Borah Bergman, William Parker, Joe Morris, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Ray Anderson, T.K. Ramakrishnan and many others. Mat Maneri has recorded widely, and led a number of groups, often with drummer Randy Peterson and, latterly, trumpeter Dave Ballou and vibraphonist Matt Moran. His ECM discography includes, in addition to the recordings with Joe Maneri, the solo album “Trinity”. Mat also contributes to “Skirting The River Road”, singer Robin Williamson's settings of Whitman, Blake and Vaughan.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of ECM Records and ars nova workshop
 
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