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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 ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses - Live at the Jazz Standard
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per gli amanti del miglior jazz orchestrale e per i fans di Maria Schneider questa ristampa è una splendida sorpresa. Pubblicato alcuni anni fa in edizione limitata (in una singolare confezione con due bottiglie di Riesling) il disco viene oggi ristampato dalla Artist Share. L'album, inciso nel gennaio 2000, ribadisce il valore di questa geniale bandleader ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses - Live at the Jazz Standard
by Bill Bennett
Maria Schneider Orchestra Days of Wine and Roses - Live at the Jazz Standard ArtistShare 2005 Originally released in a limited edition--boxed with two bottles of Riesling wine--the reissue of this unique CD is a welcome event for fans of Maria Schneider. There's no wine this time but it still ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard
by Edward Blanco
Days of Wine and Roses, captured in a live performance at the Jazz Standard in New York, was originally packaged in 2000 with two bottles of Riesling wine for sale, conceived and promoted as a marriage of music and wine, when the project encountered difficulties as the laws governing the sale and ditribution of liquor prevented ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard
by Brian P. Lonergan
Big band leader Maria Schneider employs a simple formula on Live at the Jazz Standard: beautiful, multi-hued, and layered arrangements plus first-rate instrumentalists equals a vibrant modern big band session. This is not to say that the music is simple; anything but. Rather, the musicians' fluidity makes the set come across as effortless, while Schneider's approach ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
When a jazz album is as successful as composer/arranger/conductor Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden (ArtistShare, 2004), there's a different expectation for the followup. Winning a Grammy and being on many top ten lists can ring the death knell for a pop album, since fans expect the followup to be an even greater event. But with ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Concert in the Garden
by Jerry D'Souza
Maria Schneider's first three recordings have been admirable, due not only to her insight as a composer and her skills as an arranger, but also to the musicians that make up her orchestra. It is they who are the architects of her plan, and they get fully involved, giving the final edifice a rich presence and ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Concert in the Garden
by Dan McClenaghan
Composer/arranger Maria Schneider, at the helm of her seventeen-piece orchestra, soars back and forth over the blurry line that separates classical music and jazz on Concert in the Garden , her first CD offering since 2000's Grammy-nominated Allegresse.With Schneider's compositions, movement seems always a theme. From her gravity-defying “Hang Gliding" on Allegresse to her ...
