ArtistInfo

Joe Maneri

ts, cl, as, 1927-2009 US, Brooklyn
Musician / Composer of Jazz
A.k.a. Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri

Joseph Gabriel Esther "Joe" Maneri (February 9, 1927 – August 24, 2009), was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son.After decades of obscurity, Maneri's distinctive saxophone and clarinet works gained praise and relative fame in the 1990s. To conventional Western sensibilities, some of his passages may sound 'out-of-tune'- but there is a consistent, internal logic to his unorthodox playing; critic Charlie Wilmoth describes Maneri's playing as "a slippery, space-filled alien blues".

Instruments

• Tenor sax
• Clarinet
• Alto sax
• Piano
• Vocals

Genres

• Jazz
• Folk
• World
• Spoken Word

Plays With