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Sequoia Snyder: Growing in the Light of the Masters

by Paul Rauch
September 17, 2026

It was day three of the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, a sunny Sunday late afternoon with just enough white, puffy, high sky clouds to keep the massive crowd gathered at Hart Plaza comfortable. The JP Morgan Chase stage at the southeast corner of the plaza seemed to hang perilously on the edge of the Detroit River Walk, the afternoon turning to evening sun dancing off the blue-green waters of the river. Pianist-keyboardist-composer Sequoia Snyder, also known by her childhood ...