Courier-Life Publications

This February 9, the Irondale Center will hold a tribute to Joe Maneri, a Williamsburg-born jazz musician and composer who died this past summer due to complications of heart failure.

The tribute is even more touching, given that Maneri was the father-in-law of Lucy Walters-Maneri, the public relations and marketing manager for Irondale, as well as the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where Maneri also taught for a time.

“He created his own language,” said Walters-Maneri. “He also touched many people’s hearts in the music world and personally.”

In his 82 years, Manerimade several contributions in the experimental jazz realm, as co-inventor of a microtonal keyboard and co-author...

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