Artistic Encounters with Joe Manis Quartet

Name: Artistic Encounters with Joe Manis Quartet
Start: 2025-09-19T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-19T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Kesey Square

Schedule

Fri Sep 19 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Kesey Square | Eugene, OR

Featuring:
Joe Manis - tenor saxophone
Paul Krueger - trumpet
Tyler Abbott - bass
Charlie Doggett - drums
Manis has toured Europe as a duo and trio with David Friesen, where they recorded Structures, a live album. He also appears on Risky Notion (four stars & Best Albums of 2015, DownBeat Magazine) on Origin Records with George Colligan's Theoretical Planets. Manis has played with Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, including a performance at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, and appears on their album Rise Up! on Real World Records. He has also performed with the George Colligan Quartet, the Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra,the Ken Schaphorst Big Band, the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Opera and the Oregon Bach Festival. Manis’s live performance was recently featured on NPR’s Jazz Night in America, hosted by Christian McBride.
A current faculty member at Portland State University, Lane Community College and the University of Oregon, Manis has been published in JazzEd magazine and has presented jazz masterclasses across the country. He received a Master of Music in Jazz Studies-Performance with Academic Honor from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. Additional studies were at the Eastman School of Music.
Part of the Artistic Encounters series co-produced by Harmonic Laboratory and City of Eugene Cultural Services.
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