Three Men Walking
Occupation
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Piano: Joe Maneri
- Guitar: Joe Morris
- Violin: Mat Maneri
Three Men Walking is an album by the trio of Joe Maneri, Joe Morris and Mat Maneri, recorded in multiple sessions in October and November 1995 in Winterthur and appeared in 1996 on ECM. The album's title refers to an eponymous bronze sculpture by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti was born in 1949 and is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The album
Even before the woodwinds Joe Maneri and his son, the violinist Mat Maneri had worked together in several productions; 1993 and in June 1995 arose for Leo Records albums Get Ready to Receive Yourself! and Let the Horses Go. Added to this was the guitarist Joe Morris at the studio recordings in Winterthur. The sessions went a time of planning (Paul Bley made contact with the ECM label -wise) and extensive sample advance; two days before the studio session was a first concert of the group held it still followed by a joint tour, inter alia, with an appearance at the Berlin Jazz Festival, bringing the collaboration ended. The recording of a concert in Cologne Loft appeared as Album Out Right Now in Hatology 2001.
"The group is embarking on a journey that jazz, chamber music and explores collective improvisation ," wrote the ECM label in his announcement. The producer is the view: " Maneri / Morris / Maneri supply with a very own expression and dynamic feeling a strangely poignant, deeply poetic music ".
In the joint improvisation on original compositions of the band members Mat Maneris bow game ( an exception is the jazz standard What's New? ) Are the contributions Mat Maneris on the electrically amplified violin " the bridge between Morris and his father. ", However, provides some foundation for the short, sharp notes of Joe Maneri and Morris. The trio can be simultaneously space for solo and duo titled, " which turn out their individual strengths and a greater appreciation of the individual services allow ," wrote the critic Stacia Proefrock. So the album containing the unaccompanied clarinet Joe Maneris begins " in the sound harder and deeper than [ Jimmy ] Giuffre, although superficially similar. " The solo finale For Josef Schmid is a bow Joe Maneris ( here on piano ) to the composer and Alban- mountain - pupil Josef Schmid (1890-1969), who introduced the young Maneri with the work of Arnold Schoenberg.
Joe Morris remarked to the music of the album:
"Our instruments define certain parameters, and the challenge is to expand our roles. I do not like to limit my use of the guitar on the front and the background. Instead, I look for spaces in between, and that creates usually an indicated structure. The attack of the guitar is different from the violin or the woodwinds, so I have about the introduction carefully to worry, but I can create a percussive sound, which is unique to the group and a kind of jumping out (pop out) the textures. I'm thinking a lot about register, as all do, we can hear all the lead vocals in the mid and low frequencies. We play lead and accompany the same time. "
Album Review
The first ECM album Joe Maneris received positive reviews; Jazz Times called Three Men Walking as one of its best shots ". The lineup of father and son Maneri and guitarist Morris speaks a personal language" This is the stuff of legend, wrote the time on Joe Maneris ECM debut. According to Gary Giddins the album do not disappoint: "It is original and deeply compelling. While two Maneris tend to blend, Morris counterposes a different yet complementary key, Suggesting harmolodic spatiality. He is at once distinctive and in synch. "
Joe Maneri was a communicative player, so Giddins, " its sound on the tenor, alto [ saxophone ] and particularly on the clarinet is impressive individual, his phrases logical and meaningful to Three Men Walking. Nowhere is this more evident than in his version of What's New, which begins disarming with the first two notes of the standard and then goes on to describe the melody by it winds deeper into it, so that one instead of a theme - and - variation - [ scheme ] is somewhat similar to an inspired dissection experience. "
Stacia Proefrock awarded the album in Allmusic, the second highest rating of four stars and wrote:
Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the trio album the highest rating of four stars: The Giacometti sculpture of three people who are uncertain tacked on the ground and aim in different directions, although connected to the same point on the floor at the moment, is a visual reference to the music that "simultaneously airy and grounded, solid and immaterial, both jazz and something else " is. The highlight of the session were the group improvisations Bird 's in the Bedlfy, Three Men Walking and Arc and Point.
Title
- Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Mat Maneri: Three Men Walking (ECM Records 1597)