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Article: Live Review

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019

by Rob Garratt
October 3, 2019

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Maria Baptist: Here & Now 2

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by Geno Thackara
September 2, 2019

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 ...

Album

Resonance

By Maria Baptist

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.

Article: Year in Review

Geno Thackara's Best Releases of 2018

by Geno Thackara
December 13, 2018

Despite (or in defiant response to) the difficulties of the streaming age, 2018 has seen another musical bumper crop--especially for those of us who particularly love the sound of the piano. There were enough top-notch offerings to make a list at least twice as long, but these have been the most frequent and satisfying staples in ...

Article: Album Review

Maria Baptist: Resonance

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by Geno Thackara
August 25, 2018

Maria Baptist has several favorite contexts for her piano--trio, trio-plus-one, solo or with an orchestra--and yet there's always a certain throughline that comes through in any setting. It's a sophisticated voice that's highly emotional, evocative and vivid as life. Following on from a successful year of profile-building and highly visible gigs, Baptist goes small-scale ...

Album

Poems Without Words

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Illuminate the Night; Apartment #3; Running; The Moon Stood Still; Beautiful Chaos; Things I Wanted to Say; Turn Up the Silence; Hell's Kitchen; On Top of the Mountain.

Article: Multiple Reviews

The Art (de Vivre) of the Trio

by Geno Thackara
August 12, 2017

Amaury Faye Trio Clearway Pias Jazz Village 2017 Following several years of studying and reputation-building in his native France and beyond, Amaury Faye makes an accomplished and overdue step foward with Clearway. It was largely a standards affair on his leader debut Big Moe Trio (Greenworks, 2010). Here the French ...

Album

Maria Baptist: Music for Jazz Orchestra

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: AVUS; Blue Pictures; Ibiza Conversations; On Top of the Mountain; The Blossom; Avenue Walk; Rush Hour; Lingering; 36th Street Midtown; Goodbye; Minotaurus (live).

Article: Extended Analysis

Maria Baptist: Music for Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
January 6, 2014

Like it or not, a new wave of young composer / arrangers has surfaced, scrupulously guiding big bands into heretofore uncharted waters, now and then smooth, at other times choppy, but always intriguing and inspired. Maria Schneider, George Gruntz, Jim McNeely and Carla Bley were among the pacesetters, followed in short order by such (relative) newcomers ...