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Joe Maneri
Joe Maneri at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, 2004
Background information
Birth name	Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri
Born	(1927-02-09)February 9, 1927 Brooklyn, New York
Died	August 4, 2009(2009-08-04) (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Saxophone, clarinet
Years active	1960–2009
Labels	Leo, ECM

Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri (February 9, 1927 – August 24, 2009), was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son.

Boston Microtonal Society

In 1988, Maneri founded the Boston Microtonal Society, dedicated to microtonal music and tuning. It is currently led by James Bergin and Julia Werntz.

Discography

• Kalavinka (Cochlea, 1989)
• Get Ready to Receive Yourself (Leo, 1995)
• Three Men Walking with Mat Maneri, Joe Morris (ECM, 1996)
• Dahabenzapple (hatART, 1996)
• Let the Horse Go (Leo, 1996)
• In Full Cry (ECM, 1997)
• Coming Down the Mountain (hatOLOGY, 1997)
• Paniots Nine (Avant, 1998)
• Blessed with Mat Maneri (ECM, 1998)
• Tales of Rohnlief with Mat Maneri, Barre Phillips (ECM, 1999)
• Tenderly (hatOLOGY, 1999)
• Out Right Now with Mat Maneri and Joe Morris (hatOLOGY, 2001)
• Voices Lowered (Leo, 2001)
• The Trio Concerts (Leo, 2001)
• Going to Church (AUM Fidelity, 2002)
• Angles of Repose (ECM, 2004)
• Peace Concert with Peter Dolger (Atavistic, 2008)
• Pinerskol with Masashi Harada (Leo, 2009)

With Mat Maneri

• Acceptance (hatOLOGY, 1996)
• Pentagon (Thirsty Ear, 2005)

References

1. Loewy, Steve. "The Trio Concerts". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
2. Boston Microtonal Society Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• "A Fireside Chat With Joe Maneri" Jazz Weekly
• "Microtonal marks 20 years with several premieres" Boston Globe
• JazzVisionsPhotos.com: Joe Maneri
• Obituary The Guardian

v t e Microtonal music
Composers	Richard Barrett Béla Bartók Easley Blackwood Jr. Heinz Bohlen Julián Carrillo Franklin Cox Mildred Couper John Eaton Brian Ferneyhough Michael Finnissy Bjørn Fongaard Alois Hába Christiaan Huygens Charles Ives Ben Johnston György Ligeti Stu Mackenzie Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf Joel Mandelbaum Joe Maneri Roger Redgate John Schneider Sevish Ezra Sims Nicola Vicentino Claude Vivier Elaine Walker Ivan Wyschnegradsky La Monte Young
Inventors	Glenn Branca Wendy Carlos Ivor Darreg Adriaan Fokker Lou Harrison Yuri Landman Harry Partch Tui St. George Tucker Nicola Vicentino
Tunings and scales	Non-octave- repeating scales Alpha scale Beta scale Gamma scale Delta scale Lambda scale (Bohlen–Pierce scale) Equal temperament 15 17 19 22 23 24 31 34 41 53 58 72 96 Just intonation Harry Partch's 43-tone scale Double diatonic
Concepts and techniques	Limit Otonality and Utonality Semitone Sonido 13 Xenharmonicity Tonality diamond
Groups and publications	Boston Microtonal Society Genesis of a Music Huygens-Fokker Foundation
Compositions	Beauty in the Beast quarter tone pieces just pieces Mother Sonata for Microtonal Piano Suite for Microtonal Piano Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media Flying Microtonal Banana K.G. L.W.
Other topics	Enharmonic keyboard Generalized keyboard Modernism (music)

• 1927 births
• 2009 deaths
• 20th-century American composers
• 20th-century American male musicians
• 20th-century American saxophonists
• American classical composers
• American jazz clarinetists
• American jazz composers
• American jazz saxophonists
• American male classical composers
• American male saxophonists
• American people of Italian descent
• Avant-garde jazz clarinetists
• Avant-garde jazz saxophonists
• ECM Records artists
• Free improvisation clarinetists
• Free improvisation saxophonists
• Free jazz clarinetists
• American male jazz composers
• Microtonal composers
• New England Conservatory faculty
• 20th-century jazz composers