Mat Maneri Quintet Feat: Craig Taborn, Oscar Noriega, Garth Stevenson, Randy Peterson April 20, 2011

Mat Maneri Quintet
Feat: Craig Taborn, Oscar Noriega, Garth Stevenson, Randy Peterson
Wednesday, April 20, 8:30pm & 10pm
Cornelia Street café

“Mat (Maneri) has changed the way the jazz world listen to the Violin & Viola” - All About Jazz
What: Mat Maneri Quintet
Feat: Mat Maneri, viola, Craig Taborn, piano, Oscar Noriega, bass clarinet, saxophone, Garth Stevenson, bass Randy Peterson, drums
Where: Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, A/C/D/B/F/V to West 4.
When: Wednesday, April 20, 8:30 pm & 10pm
Cost: $10
Info: www.myspace.com/matmaneri
“Mat (Maneri) upholding avant-garde excellence,…engrossing, ruminative viola improvisation of contrasting reticence” – Boston Globe
After a five year hiatus Mat Maneri regroups his quintet will an all new line up featuring veterans Oscar Noriega “rich sound…opulent resonance…highly individualized voice” – JazzTimes, Craig Taborn hailed as "#1 rising Star Keyboardist" in the 55th and 56th Downbeat Critics poll, newcomer Garth Stevenson and long time collaborator, Randy Peterson “one of the great jazz drummers to emerge in the past couple of decades” - JazzTimes
The quintet will feature all new music blending contemporary jazz, microtonality and modern classical music. The unusual acoustic instrumentation of viola, bass clarinet, piano, bass and drums will also seamlessly weave in electronic ambiences. The quintets goal is to follow in the great jazz tradition and lineage of expanding the boundaries of improvised music, they are currently preparing to record for the Dahabenzapple label who will be releasing the new Maneri/Peterson duet “27” later this year.
This quintet will perform two sets at New York’s highly acclaimed Cornelia Street Café, Wednesday, April 20 at 8:30pm & 10pm, admission $10.
About the Mat Maneri
Mat 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, and 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. He has released records on labels such as Thirsty Ear, HatHut and ECM.

About Randy Peterson
By the late eighties and early nineties Peterson was performing in Boston clubs with the Joe Maneri Quartet which received international recognition as a unique voice in history. The Joe Maneri Quartet toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim as evidenced by the audience and was written about in major publications. These records are on labels such as Leo Records (London), the Swiss label Hataology and ECM (Germany). Other recordings feature on Aumfidelity (USA) as well as duo and trio work with Mat Maneri on No More Records (USA), several releases on Hatology and three more on Leo Records which span years of collaboration.
Further work on the Leo Records includes several remarkable CD’s where critic John Corbett described Peterson as “a terrifically sensitive drummer, capable of maneuvering in the shifting roles of support and initiative required in a contemporary piano trio”.
Further recordings include two releases on Steeple Chase (Denmark) with the Dave Ballou Quartet and trio which continue to expose a fully different approach to the jazz of today. Peterson also developed his own drum set studio while teaching at the New School University in New York City. He continues to hone his unique approach while having made an historic impression among musicians in late twentieth and the early twenty first century of jazz.
About Craig Taborn
Composer/Pianist/Electronic Musician Craig Taborn was born and raised in Golden Valley, Minnesota. While studying at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Craig had the good fortune to play in the illustrious Detroit jazz community performing and studying with such luminaries as Marcus Belgrave, Harold Mckinney, Francisco Mora, Rodney Whitaker, and Kenny Cox.

He has played and recorded with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Tim Berne, Steve Coleman, Lester Bowie, Evan Parker, Bill Laswell, David Torn, Mat Maneri, James Carter, Marty Ehrlich, Chris Potter, Leroy Jenkins, Joe Maneri, Susie Ibarra, Carl Craig, Bill Frisell, David Binney, Dave Douglas, Lotte Anker, Gerald Cleaver, Adam Rogers, Hugh Ragin, Meat Beat Manifesto, Rudresh Manhattappa, Graham Haynes, and Rob Brown among others.

He is currently a member of Chris Potter’s Underground, Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory and Quintet, Tim Berne’s Hard Cell and Science Friction ensembles, Drew Gress’ 7 Black Butterflies, Gerald Cleaver’s Uncle June, Farmer's by Nature with William Parker and Cleaver, Anker/Taborn/Cleaver, David Binney’s Welcome to Life band and Quartet, and Susie Ibarra’s trio.
About Oscar Noriega
Noriega is constantly active in New York's downtown jazz world. He plays regularly in a wide range of contexts, at such clubs as the Knitting Factory, Tonic, Birdland, and Visiones. Groups that Oscar leads include Play Party, featuring Cuong Vu, Brad Shepik, and Tom Rainey, and the Oscar Noriega Quartet. In addition to his work as a leader, Oscar is a member of the quartet Unit X, and of Sideshow, a collective which reinterprets the works of Charles Ives. Sideshow was named best repertory ensemble of the year (1999) in the Village Voice.

About Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a prominent voice in the New York music scene. He is well known as a double bassist, composer, arranger, producer and electronic musician. He has performed throughout North America, South America, Europe and Japan.

Garth collaborates with the following bands: Mat Maneri Quartet & Quintet, David Tronzo Trio, John Shannon, Sonya Kitchell, 5707, Stones Throw, Petr Cancura’s People Music. He also performs solo concerts for double bass with electronics. His solo composition Grandfather won the International Society of Double Bassist Composition Competition and was premiered by Stevenson at the 2009 ISB convention. He has performed at major festivals including: Montreal Jazz Festival, Ottawa Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, The Vision Festival, Bonnaroo, and has appeared on David Letterman, Craig Fergusson, CBS Morning Show, XM and Sirius Radio.
About Cornelia Street Café
Hailed by Mayoral proclamation as “A culinary as well as a cultural landmark” the Cornelia Street café has been presenting an enormous variety of performance for over 30 years, launching, establishing or reviving the careers of artists such as Suzanne Vega, Eve Ensler, Bill McHenry, John McNeill, Theo Bleckman, Tony Malaby, Jeremy Steig, Suheir Hammad, Hyung Ki Joo, and dozens of others. The café has given voice to neglected major international playwrights such as Liliane Atlan, Peter Barnes and Gunter Grass and has featured appearances by writers as diverse as Senator Eugene McCarthy, attorney William Kunstler, and Monty Python’s Terry Jones.

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