Jazz Articles about Maria Marmarou

About Maria Marmarou

Album Review

Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra: Royalty: The Music of Duke Ellington & Count Basie

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by Jack Bowers
October 23, 2026

According to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, there are at least 33 cities, towns and other populated areas in the U.S. that answer to the name “Springfield." Only five boast populations of more than 20,000, and one (Illinois) is a state capital. Springfields can be found in Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Kentucky, among other places. And also in Ohio, which is presumably the only Springfield that is home to its very own Symphony Jazz Orchestra. ...

Rising Stars

Introducing Drummer Maria Marmarou

by Sanford Josephson
February 7, 2023

At the 2023 Jazz at Lincoln Center Jack Rudin Championship, held January 14 and 15 at JALC's Rose Hall, drummer Maria Marmarou, a graduate student at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance, received the Earl Hines Outstanding Musician Award. She also shared Outstanding Drums honors with Nygel Anderson of Florida State University and Pete Zimmer of Northern Illinois University. And, she was part of Temple's Outstanding Rhythm Section, which also included pianist Anthony Aldissi and bassist Dan McCain. ...

Album Review

Temple University Jazz Band: Without You, No Me

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by Jack Bowers
November 28, 2021

When his friend, colleague, mentor and confidante Jimmy Heath died in January 2020, trumpeter Terell Stafford's first impulse was to find a way to honor and remember the renowned Philadelphia-born saxophonist. As Stafford is director of the Temple University Jazz Band, also in Philadelphia, an obvious way would be to record a tribute album, which Stafford set about preparing. And then the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, scuttling those plans and most others on the drawing board. The band ...