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Maria Baptist

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Essays on Jazz

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Here and Now; The Bright and the Dark; Longing; The Moon Stood Still; Running. CD 2: Apartment #3; On Top of the Mountain; Minotaurus; After the Darkness; Midnight Rain; Goodbye.

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Article: Album Review

Maria Baptist: Essays on Jazz

Read "Essays on Jazz" reviewed by Geno Thackara


If a title such as Essays on Jazz might suggest something dry or academic (or, god forbid, pretentious), perish the thought. For one thing, Maria Baptist has spent decades as a professor of music and knows her stuff enough to live up to the name. For another, she has spent even more time living the jazz ...

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Facing Duality

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Facing Duality; Minotaurus; Stillness Speaks; Sea of Blackness; Midnight Rain; Gratitude; Natural Landscapes; Cloud 9; Longing.

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Article: Year in Review

Geno Thackara's Best Releases of 2020

Read "Geno Thackara's Best Releases of 2020" reviewed by Geno Thackara


However strange the year has gotten, the urge to create clearly hasn't lessened at all--either that or the circumstances have left us more appreciative of art where we find it. Most likely it's some of both. Whatever the case may be, 2020 has still seen no shortage of musical treats good for the soul.

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Article: Album Review

Maria Baptist and Jan von Klewitz: Facing Duality

Read "Facing Duality" reviewed by Geno Thackara


In a way it seems out of nowhere, and in a way it was a long time coming. While Maria Baptist has ranged from solo to trio to big band and more, throughout her career at the piano, Jan von Klewitz's saxophone has been a more steady presence beside her than than most. He came on ...

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Here & Now 2

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Nature of Reality; Midnight Suite #1; Midnight Suite #2; Midnight Suite #3; Midnight Suite #4; As Long as We Are Searching For; Sign of the Zodiac.

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Article: Live Review

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019

Read "Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019" reviewed by Rob Garratt


Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019 Hong Kong City Hall; Hong Kong Park Hong Kong September 22, 25-27 We've long been told that jazz is a world language, but regional dialects are becoming an increasingly louder part of the conversation. Sitting conceptually, if not geographically, on the nexus ...

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Article: Album Review

Maria Baptist: Here & Now 2

Read "Here & Now 2" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Maria Baptist and big bands go way back. From a lifelong fascination with orchestras to several large-ensemble collaborations and academic competitions from the '90s onward, she's always been drawn to handling impressive quantities of brass. Whatever else she gets up to--and there's certainly no shortage of other different projects to keep rotating among--her Jazz Orchestra stays ...

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Resonance

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Resonance; Stillness Speaks; The High Line; After the Darkness; Urban Meditation; Raising the Frequencies; The Blossom; Early Sunday Morning; Song of the Soul.


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