sounds of New York
Mat Maneri (viola), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Brandon Lopez, (bass), live, New York, 4/16/22
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The melody! the rest is accessory: . . .
—Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978), from “A”-6
How about something quiet?
Mat Maneri Quartet/Dust (MM, viola; Lucian Ban, piano; John Hébert, bass; Randy Peterson, drums), playing and talking, Romania (Brasov), 2021 (published 2/12/22)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York, 2/22/22 (published yesterday)
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), detail from Interchanged (1955)
I can almost feel the beer spilling on my shoulder as the waitress gets bumped.
Mat Maneri Trio (MM, viola; Randy Peterson, drums; Ed Schuller, bass), live, Cambridge, Mass., 1997
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
two takes
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (trad.)
Sonja Maneri (1937-2021, voice), Mat Maneri (1969-, viola), live, published 2020
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Mat Maneri (viola), live, Paris, 2020
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random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), Tyshawn Sorey (drums), live, New York, 8/26/21
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
sounds of New York
Why not begin the week with something new?
Ches Smith (drums, percussion), Craig Taborn (piano), Mat Maneri (viola), Bill Frisell (guitar), live, New York, 5/21/21 (performance begins at 10:30)
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random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago (Glen Ellyn)
alone
Mat Maneri (1969-, viola), “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (trad.), live, Paris, 2020
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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A leaf, one of the last, parts from a maple branch:
it is spinning in the transparent air of October, falls
on a heap of others, stops, fades. No one
admired its entrancing struggle with the wind,
followed its flight, no one will distinguish it now
as it lies among the other leaves, no one saw what I did. I am
the only one.—Bronisław Maj (1953-), “A Leaf,” translated from Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
what’s new
This I could listen to all day.
Mat Maneri (viola) and Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), live, New York, 8/19/18
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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