Joe Maneri / Mat Maneri - blessed /CDArt.-Nr. ECM 1661
Joe Maneri alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet, piano
Mat Maneri violin, electric 6-string and baritone violins, electric 5-string viola At The Gate There Are No Doors Sixty-One Joys From Loosened Soil Five Fantasies Never Said A Mumblin' Word Is Nothing Near? Body And Soul Race You Home Gardenias For Gardenis Outside The Whole Thing Blessed Recorded October 1997 The first-ever duo album from the the highly-idiosyncratic American masters of microtonal improvisation. Father and son Maneri speak a musical language all their own, even when, as here, they reach out to embrace standards (Mat's rivettingly strange account of "Body And Soul"), spirituals (a wildly emotional "Never Said A Mumblin' Word) or Greek music (Joe's tribute to Charlie Gardenis, "the Bird of the Greek clarinet").
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