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A native of Brooklyn, New York, guitarist Terrence McManus has performed or recorded with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Don Byron, John Hollenbeck, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, Herb Robertson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Randy Peterson, Anthony Cox, Russ Lossing, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, Matt Moran, Billy Mintz, Michael Sarin, Marty Ehrlich, Kermit Driscoll, and Gene Bertoncini. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park, and the inaugural month at John Zorn’s The Stone.
Terrence was featured in the book, State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson, The book is published by Yale University Press and The Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, TX.
Terrence is currently a member of the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, the Herb Robertson Ensemble, the Gerry Hemingway/Terrence McManus Duo, and the John Hébert/Terrence McManus Duo. Terrence is featured on the Gerry Hemingway Quintet release Riptide (Clean Feed Records), and the Hemingway/McManus Duo release, Below the Surface of (Auricle Records).
Terrence’s own projects include Transcendental Numbers, with Mark Helias, and Gerry Hemingway, which has a recording entitled Transcendental Numbers, released on the No Business Record label from Lithuania. He also leads the trio Blood Money, with John Hébert and Randy Peterson, and a chamber quintet with Ellery Eskelin, Mat Maneri, Russ Lossing, and Gerry Hemingway. The quintet premiered a new sixty minute, multi-sectional, through-composed work titled, The Machine. The piece has also been performed in an trio configuration, and in a solo guitar setting.
An accomplished solo guitarist, Terrence performs his own compositions and arrangements on electric and classical guitar, and has developed a unique style of improvisation, drawing on extended technique and prepared guitar. He has released one solo recording entitled Brooklyn EP. He was invited to perform in the 5th annual Electro-Music Festival, and has done numerous solo tours, performing in California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, and Alaska.
Actively involved in education, Terrence has taught at The University of California, San Diego, Loyola University, the University of New Orleans, the University of Nebraska, and The New School in New York City.
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