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Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Jack Bowers
If you are fond of lovely music, and are able to look beyond categories and labels to unmask its allure, chances are you'll fall head-over-heels in love with Sky Blue, composer/arranger Maria Schneider's sixth album and third for ArtistShare. Having studied with Bob Brookmeyer and the late Gil Evans, and strived earlier in her career to ...
Michael Marcus: Truth, Love and Soul
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Philadelphia performance artist “Skip" Homer Jackson recently asked my opinion about a number of jazz artists who have been overlooked because they were great stylists who played in the shadows of great players. I immediately thought of Booker Ervin in relationship to John Coltrane; and Booker Little, who ironically was little (no pun intended) appreciated during ...
Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: First Flight
by Dan McClenaghan
Trombonist/composer/arranger Pete McGuinness has twenty years on the New York jazz scene under his belt, playing with the Woody Herman Big Band (directed by Frank Tibieri) and the Maria Schneider Orchestra, alongside studies with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Album. So it's no surprise that his first recording leading his Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, First Flight, ...
Fred Katz
by Elliott Simon
Fred Katz is generally credited with being the first musician to explore the possibility of the cello as a jazz instrument. He accomplished this while an integral member of drummer Chico Hamilton's influential '50s quintet and through his own solo works such as Soul-o-cello (Decca, 1957), Fred Katz and His Jammers (Decca, 1958) and Zen (World ...
Judi Silvano: Women's Work: Live at Sweet Rhythm
by Michael P. Gladstone
Jazz singer Judi Silvano is the wife of tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano and she has appeared on some of his Blue Note albums, including Viva Caruso (2002), Celebrating Sinatra (1996) and Universal Language (1992), with a rather operatic vocalese style. Silvano began recording under her own name on Blue Note with Vocalese (1996) and ...
Grammy-Winning Composer Maria Schneider Releases "Sky Blue" Available Only at MariaSchneider.com
"...among the most arresting, accomplished music of the new century." --THE OTTAWA CITIZEN “...she puts together stories that speak with the clarity of Ernest Hemingway and the musical grace of Aaron Copland." --PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE “It seemed impossible for Schneider to top her Grammy-winning Concert in the Garden, but she's done just that with Sky Blue. She ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
Maria Schneider says she takes great pleasure in making people sound their best. In an orchestral setting, nobody does it better. She proved that on Concert in the Garden (ArtistShare, 2004); and she raises the bar with Sky Blue. Schneider, like Duke Ellington before her, writes for her players, and on this disc she has incited ...
Dick de Graaf Quartet: Moving Target
by Michael P. Gladstone
Tenor and soprano saxophonist Dick de Graff has built an impressive catalogue of 120 original songs over the years and has been a well-known fixture on the European scene for decades. De Graaf, originally from The Netherlands, is now Rotterdam-based. His recordings consist of over a dozen albums as leader or co-leader. Although he has a ...
Nordic Connect: Flurry
by Michael P. Gladstone
Following the career of Canadian/Scandinavian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen seemed to peak at a new level with At Sea (ArtistShare, 2006), which ambitiously resembled an ECM label project. However, all that has now been overshadowed by the release of Flurry by Nordic Connect. This is a family cooperative that includes an interwoven cast: Jensen on trumpet and ...
Satoko Fujii: Defying Expectations
by Kurt Gottschalk
Satoko Fujii is a rare breed. The pianist and composer manages to continually defy expectations while remaining solid and eminently musical in her work. She puts out new recordings at an almost ridiculous rate, rarely repeating a composition, but doesn't simply toss any live session to whatever label will take it. Each new disc (she's released ...
