Brandon Lopez / Mat Maneri| AFA On_Line Salon

Brandon Lopez - bass Mat Maneri - viola Brandon Lopez & Mat Maneri performing at the Clemente, recorded Feb 22, 2022. About the Artists Brandon Lopez is a New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times). From the New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others. Mat Maneri has helped define the voice of the viola and violin in jazz and improvised music.ver the course of a twenty-five year career, Born in Brooklyn in 1969, Maneri has established an international reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation, praised for his high degree of individualism, a distinctive marriage of jazz and microtonal music, and his work with 20th century icons of improvised music. About Arts for Art In May 2020, Arts for Art introduced the On_Line Salon series to provide livestreaming performance opportunities for our artists who lost in-person gigs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Performances stream on Tuesdays and Thursdays. See the full schedule at https://www.artsforart.org/onlinesalon. Arts for Art is dedicated to the exceptional creativity that originated in the African American multi-arts jazz culture that utilizes improvisation to express a larger, more positive dream of inclusion and freedom. #ArtsforArt #AFA #freejazz #improv #souljazz #jazz #duo #lopez #BrandonLopez #lopezbass #MatManeri #Maneri #viola #violin