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| 1. | Coarser And Finer
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| 2. | Tenderly
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| 3. | Outside The Dance Hall
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| 4. | A Kind Of Birth
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| 5. | The Seed And All
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| 6. | Pulling The Boat In
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| 7. | Nobody Knows
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| 8. | In Full Cry
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| 9. | Shaw Was A Good Man, Peewee
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| 10. | Lift
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| 11. | Motherless Child
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| 12. | Prelude To A Kiss
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Jazz / Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Recorded June 1996
Joe Maneri clarinet, alto and tenor saxophones, piano
Mat Maneri six-string electric violin
John Lockwood double-bass
Randy Peterson drums, percussion
Maneri's ECM debut Three Men Walking was an album-of-the-year selection in England's The Guardian, France's Jazz Magazine and Germany's Jazzthetik. On In Full Cry, the 70-year-old clarinettist/saxophonist/pianist, one of American music's great originals, leads his quartet through a programme of free improvisations, jazz standards, and spirituals that hark back to his days as a street preacher in Brooklyn. The musical exchanges between Joe and his son Mat (on electric 6-string violin) - employing the grammar of Father Maneri's 72-notes-per-octave microtonal system - are like nothing else in jazz.
If you like In Full Cry, then you'd probably like: Joe Maneri/Joe Morris/Mat Maneri, Three Men Walking Paul Bley/Evan Parker/Barre Phillips, Time Will Tell Tomasz Stanko Quartet, Leosia Circle, Paris Concert
In Full Cry is Joe Maneri's second recording for ECM, an imprint known for its reverb-drenched jazz recordings, and the label's echoing production suits Maneri well. The reverb, along with minimal accompaniment from bassist John Lockwood and drummer Randy Peterson, provides a base for Maneri and his violinist son, Mat, to improvise over in a slippery, space-filled alien blues. Joe Maneri plays some excellent, atonal piano on a few tracks, but he's even better on the rest, where the clarinet and saxophone allow him to take more liberties with the pitches he plays. The quartet is sparse and mournful on these pieces, and the listener can discern some conventionally sad phrases, featuring fragments of pentatonic scales and traditional songs. But Joe and Mat use typical blues signifiers, such as bent notes and moaning, overblown lines, as a foundation for their free jazz explorations of microtonality, in which the musician divides the octave into a different series of pitches than the 12 used in most Western music. A cursory listen might produce the opinion that the members of Maneri's quartet push bent notes too far or in the wrong direction, or that they're playing out of tune, but close listening reveals that they're simply playing by their own rules. ~ Charlie Wilmoth, All Music Guide
Joe Maneri
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: 1927 in Brooklyn, NY
Died: Aug 24, 2009
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Free Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Microtonal, Saxophone Jazz
Microtonal innovator Joe Maneri was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1927, learning to play clarinet from a neighborhood shoemaker and making his professional debut on the Catskills society-band circuit at age 17. Three years later, he was introduced to the work of Arnold Schoenberg, the famed inventor of the 12-tone system, and immediately thereafter formed his own 12-tone jazz ensemble, additionally performing in a number of ethnic music combos. A decade of study under composer Joseph Schmidt (himself a former Schoenberg student) followed, before Maneri came to the attention of conductor Eric Leinsdorf, who commissioned him to compose a piano concerto. He made his first recordings for Atlantic in 1962; after the session went unreleased, Maneri was largely silent for the remainder of the decade, finally resurfacing in 1970 teaching theory and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. Exploring microtones in his subsequent compositions and improvisations alike, Maneri's first officially released recording, 1991's Kavalinka, found him joined by his violinist son Mat and percussionist Masashi Harada. Two more efforts -- the Leo Lab session Get Ready to Receive Yourself, and Three Men Walking, an ECM date featuring guitarist Joe Morris -- followed in 1995. Bassist Barre Phillips joined the Maneris for Tales of Rohnlief.
---Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide |
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