Jazz à Luz 2016: Ches Smith Trio

Ches Smith Trio
Ches Smith_batería_percusiones_vibráfono_composición
Craig Taborn_piano
Mat Maneri_viola
Festival d'Altitude Jazz à Luz, Luz Saint Sauveur, 13.07.16

Jen Shyu featuring Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson

Maubisse

There is an opening of land off the Flecha road
Where the earth spreads wide its grassy skins
Til it breaks and reveals red clay
Flesh where the wild horses graze
Just beyond
From afar their exhales fluttering
Sighs in the expanse
I knew not where I was, whom I strove to be
It was cold
Mother, I give you the sign
I grabbed the first warm hand
I rush home, and I see
I was home all the time

- Jen Shyu, from Solo Rites: Seven Breaths

Excerpt published in Arcana VI: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn

Jen Shyu featuring Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson - "Sounds & Cries of the World"
Jen Shyu_vocal, piano, gat kim (2-stringed Taiwanese moon lute), gayageum (12-stringed Korean zither), ggwaenggwari (Korean gong), kemanak (Javanese gamelan idiophone)
Mat Maneri_viola
Randy Peterson_bateria

Jamboree, Barcelona, 15.12.15

Joe Morris Quartet

Joe Morris Quartet
Joe Morris_guitarra
Mat Maneri_viola
Gerald Cleaver_bateria

Chris Lightcap_contrabajo

Cinemes Girona, Barcelona, 08.12.15

Jazz Brugge 2014: Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri

“Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously organised performance in Targu Mures, in the region where Lucian Ban grew up. A large, highly-attentive audience follows Ban and Maneri through a programme of their self-penned ballads, blues, hymns and abstract improvisations, plus Mat’s chilling solo performance of the spiritual “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”, the whole informed by the twin traditions of jazz and European chamber music. Rain, drumming upon the stained-glass windows of the Culture Palace, offers occasional melancholy commentary. In all, a unique and compelling set.

Lucian Ban_piano

Mat Maneri_viola
Jazz Brugge, 05.10.14