Three men walking
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Three Men Walking is an album by the trio of Joe Maneri , Joe Morris and Mat Maneri , recorded in several sessions in October and November 1995 in Winterthur and released in 1996 by ECM . The title of the album refers to a bronze sculpture of the same name by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti , which was created in 1949 and is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
The album
Woodwind player Joe Maneri and his son, violinist Mat Maneri had previously worked together on several productions; In 1993 and June 1995 the albums Get Ready to Receive Yourself were created for Leo Records ! and Let the Horses Go . Guitarist Joe Morris was also involved in the studio recordings in Winterthur. The sessions were preceded by a period of planning ( Paul Bley made contact with the ECM label) and extensive rehearsals; The group gave their first concert two days before the studio session. A joint tour followed. a. with an appearance at the Berlin Jazz Days , with which the collaboration ended. The recording of a concert in the Cologne Loft was released as the album Out Right Now by HatOLOGY 2001.
"The group embarks on a journey that explores jazz, chamber music and collective improvisation," wrote the ECM label in its announcement. The producer believes: “Maneri / Morris / Maneri deliver a strangely poignant, deeply poetic music with their very own expression and dynamic feeling”.
In the joint improvisation on the band members' own compositions (an exception is the jazz standard What’s New? ), Mat Maneri's contributions on the electrically amplified violin form “the bridge between Morris and his father.” Mat Maneri's archery, on the other hand, provides a certain primer for the short, sharp notes from Joe Maneri and Morris. The trio leaves room for solo and duo titles at the same time, "which emphasize their individual strengths and allow a greater appreciation of the individual performances," wrote the critic Stacia Proefrock. The album begins with the unaccompanied clarinet play Joe Maneris, "harder and deeper in sound than [Jimmy] Giuffre , although ostensibly similar." The final solo number For Josef Schmid is a bow of Joe Maneris (here at the piano) to the composer and Alban Berg student Josef Schmid (1890–1969), who introduced the young Maneri to the work of Arnold Schönberg .
Joe Morris commented on the music on the album:
“Our tools define certain parameters, and the challenge is to broaden our roles. I don't like to limit my use of the guitar to the foreground and background. Instead, I look for spaces in between, and that usually creates an implied structure. The touch of the guitar is different than that of the violin or the woodwinds, so I have to think carefully about the introduction, but I can still create a percussive sound, which is unique with the group and a kind of pop out of the textures . I think a lot about registers , like all of them do, we can all hear the lead voices in the mid and low frequencies. We play lead and accompany at the same time. "
Rating of the album
The first ECM album Joe Maneris received consistently positive reviews; JazzTimes described Three Men Walking as one of his best recordings: "The lineup of father and son Maneri and guitarist Morris speaks a personal language." This is the stuff of a legend, wrote Die Zeit about Joe Maneri's ECM debut. According to Gary Giddins , the album doesn't 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 apart and in synch . "
Joe Maneri is a communicative player on Three Men Walking , according to Giddins, "his sound on the tenor, alto [saxophone] and especially on the clarinet is impressively individual, his phrases logical and meaningful. Nowhere is this more evident than in his version of What's New , which disarmingly begins with the first two notes of the standard and then goes on to portray the melody , winding deeper into it, leaving one instead of a theme-and-variation - [Schemas] experience something similar to an inspired decomposition ”.
Stacia Proefrock gave the album the second highest rating of four stars in Allmusic and wrote:
- “Even if the two Maneris stylistically fit together with their explorations of microtonality and world music , Morris is both an innovative and a flexible player, and he manages to fit in well with the group. […] This album is improvisation in its freest form, with crisp, clear guitar playing by Morris, which, side by side with Joe Maneri's efforts to elicit the smallest spaces between the notes, unfolds a rich spectrum of sounds. [...] The music is creative in a radical way, without being inaccessible, an admirable example of innovation in jazz. "
Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the trio album the highest rating of four stars: The Giacometti sculpture of three people who are uncertainly attached to the floor and striving in different directions, although currently tied to the same point on the floor, is a visual reference to the music that is “both airy and earthbound, solid and immaterial, both jazz and something completely different”. The highlight of the session will be 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)
- Calling (Joe Maeri) 3:13
- What's new? ( Johnny Burke , Bob Haggart ) 9:47
- Bird's in the Belfry (Maneri / Morris / Maneri) 6:51
- If Not Now (Morris) 3:22
- Let Me Tell You (Maneri / Morris / Maneri) 2:03
- Through a Glass Darkly (Mat Maneri) 4:58
- Three Men Walking (Maneri / Morris / Maneri) 5:23
- Deep Paths (Maneri / Maneri / Morris) 9:16
- Diuturnal (Joe Maneri) 3:33
- Fevered (Maneri / Maneri / Morris) 5:40
- Gestalt (Mat Maneri) 2:39
- To Anne's Eyes (Joe Morris) 2:07
- For Josef Schmid (Joe Maneri) 2:09
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette . 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-017949-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Steve Lake, Liner Notes.
- ^ Daniel Piotrowski: Review of the album. In: JazzTimes
- ↑ a b c Review of the album Three Men Walking at Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 9, 2012.
- ^ A b c Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
- ↑ Jazz times. Volume 32, No. 1-5, 2002
- ↑ Joe Maneri Quartet: In Full Cry ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ECM
- ^ A b Gary Giddins: Weather Bird: Jazz on the Dawn of its Second Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc. 2004, ISBN 0-19-530449-7 . P. 430 f.
- ↑ ECM discography ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
