Fifty-One Sorrows
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| Studio album by Mat Maneri | ||||
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| Label (s) | Leo Records | |||
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CD |
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11 |
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52:33 |
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Cambridge, MA |
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Fifty-One Sorrows is a jazz album by the Mat Maneri Trio with bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Randy Peterson . The recordings, which were made on December 14, 1997 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , were released in 1999 on Leo Records .
background
Maneri, Schuller and Peterson have been working together for years, for example in the Joe Maneri Quartet ( Coming Down The Mountain , 1939), on Mat Maneri's trio album Fever Bed (Leo, 1996) and the album Acceptance (1996) by Mat-Maneri -Quintets with Gary Valente and John Dirac . Aside from two versions of Ornette Coleman's "Tone Dialing," all compositions for Fifty-One Sorrows are by Mat Maneri, who does not base them on chord structures but often writes them on their bass lines, noted Harvey Pekar.
Track list
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- Mat Maneri Trio - Fifty-One Sorrows (Leo Records CD LR 278)
- Blessed 6:35
- Tone Dialing 6:13
- Ph Level 3:01
- Fifty-One Sorrows 13:41
- Power Street 4:18
- Tone Dialing [Alternate Take] 5:59
- Ocd 8:39
- Through In 4:07
reception
Steve Loewey awarded the album 4½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic and wrote: the violin is a rarity in modern jazz and especially in the avant-garde. Mat Maneri has created an important niche for himself in the latter genre, and as he shows on this recording, he is able to play at the highest level of performance. The eight pieces “are outstanding examples of free improvisation. Without resorting to overblown or screeching, they explore the limits of restraint and interlock in uniquely broken ways. Maneri's sophisticated technique and muscle tone are perfect for the context ”.
In his review of the album for JazzTimes, Harvey Pekar praises the close interaction between the musicians in Fifty-One Sorrows , in which the line between soloist and accompanist is blurred. All three are individually impressive “and the balance they achieve is also commendable. They leave each other room to breathe and Peterson, one of the great jazz drummers who has popped up in the last few decades. Peterson has an excellent sense of form and composition and is consistently stimulating and appropriate to what the others are doing. ”At Ph Level, Peterson plays while Schuller and Maneri play an exciting arco duet, and a prime example of Schuller's pizzicato - Work can be found in the theme song. Schuller plays sparingly on the CD and apparently thinks from note to note rather than phrase to phrase.
Glenn Astarita said in All About Jazz that Fifty-One Sorrows was a worthwhile listening experience in every respect, as this thoroughly modern improvisation troupe of the nineties has many complexities, along with nuances and, to a certain extent, a little bit of small tricks of a subliminal nature. With repeated listening one could notice deviations in the movement, which one might have missed during the first playback. A great effect that can only be attributed to the resilience and intelligence of three blossoming masters.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 21, 2020)
- ^ A b Harvey Pekar: Mat Maneri: Fifty-One Sorrows. JazzTimes, April 25, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ The Mat Maneri Trio - Fifty-One Sorrows at Discogs
- ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ↑ Glenn Astarita: The Mat Maneri Trio: Fifty-one Sorrows. All About Jazz, January 1, 2000, accessed April 1, 2020 .