If you like your music spare, unconventional, enthralling, and perhaps slightly unsettling, I recommend you head out to LoFi tonight and/or Gallery 1412 tomorrow to catch a performance from guitarist Terrence McManus, visiting us for a couple days from New York City.
I’d never heard of McManus until quite recently, and I haven’t listened to as much of his music as I’d like, but the guy has a hell of a resume. He’s played with pretty much every incredible NY musician I’ve ever geeked out over (John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Kermit Driscoll . . . the list goes one), and he looks to be quite an impressive and versatile instrumentalist, improviser, and composer.
Here he is doing a little improv freakout with drummer Gerry Hemingway:
And here’s an intriguing (but all too quiet) video of him doing some solo guitar percussion, which, if you crank up your computer speakers, might give you a better idea of what’s in store tonight and tomorrow:
Yes, Terry is an amazing and original guitarist. caught a bit of him sitting in at the owl and thistle last night with Victor Noriega and Joe Martinez and it blew my mind. Not the “jazz” you are used to hearing in this city.