RIP Joe Maneria

From http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_james_argues_secret/2009/08/rip-joe-maneri.html we learn that microtonalist and sax player, New England Conservatory professor Joe Maneri has passed on.

A blogger writes: "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."

Prent Rodgers