Get Ready to Receive Yourself
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| Studio album by Joe Maneri | ||||
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| Label (s) | Leo Records | |||
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CD |
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10 |
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49:51 |
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Personasound Studio, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Get Ready to Receive Yourself is an album that Joe Maneri recorded as a quartet on September 18, 1993 in Cambridge, Massachusetts . The recordings were released in 1995 on the British label Leo Records . According to the Rough Guide to Jazz , the album was instrumental in Joe Maneri's international breakthrough.
background
After Joe Maneri had hardly performed in the 1980s and had concentrated on teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music , he began to play in various Boston groups from the end of the decade ; then in 1989 a first limited edition album in trio format ( Kavalinka ) was created, which he had recorded with his son Mat Maneri and the percussionist Masashi Harada . In 1992 Maneri performed with Paul Bley at the Montreal International Jazz Festival , which received many positive reviews. In 1993, Mat Maneri recorded other pieces that he had played with his father, drummer Randy Peterson and bassist John Lockwood and Ed Schuller . The music released on Get Ready to Receive Yourself is microtonal improvisation ; the pieces on the album are (except for the jazz standard Body and Soul ) all collective improvisations .
Under the impression of the album Get Ready to Receive Yourself , which was released in 1995 and is considered Joe Maneri's debut album, the ECM producer Steve Lake decided to have Maneri recorded for the Munich label, from which the trio album Three Men Walking (1996) resulted.
Track list
- Joe Maneri Quartet: Get Ready to Receive Yourself (Leo Lab CD 010)
- Snake Time (Joe Maneri Quartet) 6:55
- Pres (Joe Maneri Quartet) 4:05
- One Track Minds (Joe Maneri Quartet) 5:20
- Skippin 'Thru the Turnips (Joe Maneri Quartet) 2:28
- Evolve (Joe Maneri Quartet) 7:51
- Anton (Joe Maneri Quartet) 3:19
- Be-hop (Joe Maneri Quartet) 2:41
- Body and Soul (E. Heyman, F. Eyton, J. Green, R. Sour) 8:08
- Get Ready to Receive Yourself (Joe Maneri Quartet) 6:17
- Don't Look Now (Joe Maneri Quartet) 2:47
reception
After its release, Joe Maneri's debut album received honorable mention in the (jazz) specialist press, for example in JazzTimes , Jazz Journal International, Signal to Noise, and Schwann Spectrum.
Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album the highest rating in The Penguin Guide to Jazz ; In her opinion, Joe Maneri “in combination with Mat Maneri's screaming violin and John Lockwood's bass managed to create a sound that was absolutely unique and unmistakable, surprisingly difficult to categorize. [...] The language is not so much atonal as it is polytonal [...]. ”The authors particularly emphasize individual pieces; “Anton” is probably “a bow to Herr von Webern ”, but pieces like “Skippin 'Thru the Turnips”, “Evolve” and the title track signal something radically new, following on from “the really outrageous cover of Body and Soul , each one The cliché of a saxophone solo is blowing from the earth. "
According to Steve Holtje, “bassist John Lockwood and drummer Randy Peterson provide sensitive accompaniment. The album was considered the most attention grabbing jazz release of the year [1995], not least because of its background. It is seldom that connoisseurs get to hear a great new album by an unknown 67-year-old, one of the greatest players who has been under their radar for so long. With that, Maneri finally got the recognition that his truly unique talent had deserved. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- ↑ The material recorded with Ed Schuller from 1993 appeared on the albums Coming Down the Mountain (1997) and Tenderly (1999) on HatHut Records
- ↑ a b c Obituary for Joe Maneri in Culture Catch
- ↑ Harvey Pekar : Joe Maneri: Lost in the Conservatory (2000) in JazzTimes
- ↑ Jazz Times, 2000, Volume 30, Issues 1-5, p. 59
- ↑ Jazz Journal International 2000, p. 7
- ↑ Signal to Noise, 2003 - Issues 28–31 - p. 75
- ↑ Schwann Spectrum: Winter 1996–1997. 1996, p. 339.
- ↑ Quotation Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 , p. 950.