Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson October 9, 2008

What: Mat Maneri (Viola), Randy Peterson (Drums)
When: October 9th, 2008, 10pm
Where: Barbes, 376 9th street, Brooklyn
Cost: $10

Mat Maneri and Randy Peterson will play at Barbes, Brooklyn on Thursday, October 9th at 10pm. These two renowned, maverick musicians draw from the essentials in historic and modern jazz without reverting to nostalgia or reproducing atmospheric dissonances. Their unique partnership and approach to music has developed from over 20 years of playing together as a duo and in various trio’s and quartets most notably with legendary saxophonist Joe Maneri.

Maneri and Peterson have received accolades such as

‘serene, unnervingly beautiful, and at times ponderous with an almost painful deliberateness. The commitment to each other, the push/pull, the complete acceptance, warm/cold simple facts, illuminated prisms floating precariously above a high wire, compassionately sewn together -- sometimes quirky, almost mischievous." --Steve Dalachinsky

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. Maneri has worked with Ed Schuller, John Medeski, Roy Campbell, Paul Motian, Tomasz Stanko, Robin Williamson, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, Ethan Iverson, David King and many others.

In 2006, Maneri was nominated for a Grammy award in the category "Best Alternative Music Album" for the CD Pentagon.

Official Website: http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com