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flattenedplanet.com "A visionary guitarist"-Gene Bertoncini Born in Brooklyn, New York, guitarist Terrence McManus grew up in New Jersey and Connecticut. He has performed with guitarist Bill Frisell, trumpeter Herb Robertson’s quartet, bassist Kermit Driscoll’s trio, drummer Gerry Hemingway’s quintet, bassist Anthony Cox’s groups Regional Jazz and the Happy Trio, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, Ellis Island, The Knitting Factory, CBGBs, the Hartford Jazz Festival, Baltimore’s Federal Hill Jazz & Blues Festival, and the inaugural month at John Zorn’s The Stone. Also an accomplished solo guitarist, Terrence performs his own compositions and arrangements, and has developed a unique style of improvisation, drawing on extended technique and prepared guitar. Terrence’s solo improvisations were featured in the New York City debut of the Fermin Cabal play Disappeared(Tejas Verdes). In 2006 Terrence formed Flattened Planet, a record label dedicated to the promotion of new, creative, and improvised music. The label has four releases including Pastellic Reflections, Bates/Linz/McManus, Live at the Clown Lounge, and thirty9thirty8. In 2008 Terrence will be featured along with many of the world’s top guitarists in an exhibition by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson, at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit titled, The State of the Axe, will also be released as a book on Yale University Press.