Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson this Thurs @ the Stone

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What: Mat Maneri (Viola), Randy Peterson (Drums)
When: Thursday, January 29th, 2009, 10:15pm
Where: The Stone, Corner of avenue C and 2nd Street, NY
Cost: $10
Info: Myspace.com/matmaneri

These two renowned, maverick musicians draw from the essentials in historic and modern jazz without reverting to nostalgia or reproducing atmospheric dissonances. Their unique partnership and approach to music has developed from over 20 years of playing together as a duo and in various trio’s and quartets most notably with legendary saxophonist Joe Maneri.

Maneri and Peterson have received accolades such as:

"Mat (Maneri) has changed the way the way the jazz world listens to the Violin & Viola" - All About Jazz

‘serene, unnervingly beautiful, and at times ponderous with an almost painful deliberateness. The commitment to each other, the push/pull, the complete acceptance, warm/cold simple facts, illuminated prisms floating precariously above a high wire, compassionately sewn together -- sometimes quirky, almost mischievous." --Steve Dalachinsky