RIP Joe Maneri
Submitted by Secret Society
(Portrait: Sonja Holzwarth Maneri)
It would be hard to overstate how beloved Joe was by the students who took his microtonal improv class at NEC. It seemed he lit a fire in everyone who’d enrolled, through the sheer force of his outsized personality. I never dipped my toe in that well, but I certainly respected him as a true saxophone original and as an inspirational — practically evangelical — educator.
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