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Maria Schneider’s Thompson Fields Project Nears Completion
Three-time Grammy Award-winning composer Maria Schneider is nearing the finish line for her newest ArtistShare project, The Thompson Fields. As the projects comes closer and closer to completion, ArtistShare participants can listen to short clips of the project, giving them a glimpse of the Maria Schneider Orchestra’s first studio album in seven years. The record exemplifies ...
2014: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...
Whiplash, Snidely
by Steven Hahn
Jazz lovers, while always attuned to the possibility of their cherished art form entering the media mainstream, are also equally filled with dread when it occasionally does happen. Inevitably we end up consoling ourselves with a revived career (Dexter Gordon--Bird) or an outstanding performance (James Carter, et al.--Kansas City) in lieu of an actual believable plot ...
Malte Schiller Red Balloon + -: Not So Happy
by Vic Albani
Piccoli eroi crescono e, poiché di Vince Mendoza, Carla Bley, Gil Evans o Maria Schneider da questa parte dell'oceano non sembrano nascerne, salutiamo con piacere l'apparizione del sostanzialmente nuovo nome di Malte Schiller, giovane polistrumentista che da un po' di tempo si sta mettendo in evidenza sulla scena della “new generation" musicale berlinese. Malte ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra at Jazz Standard
by Dan Bilawsky
Maria Schneider Orchestra Jazz Standard New York, NY November 25, 2014 Thanksgiving is a time to reflect, rejoice, regroup, and remember all that we have to be thankful for. In the jazz world, the Maria Schneider Orchestra always ranks at the top of that last category. For ...
Mike Downes: In the Current
by Jack Bowers
In the Current, the fifth recording as leader by Canadian bassist Mike Downes--who doubles as composer / arranger--is the second (in a row) with an aqueous theme and the first performed by his “little big band," the Parallel Streams Ensemble. Downes' album Ripple Effect, recorded with his trio and special guest guitarist Ted Quinlan, earned a ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Schneider
All About Jazz is celebrating Maria Schneider's birthday today! Maria Schneider, born in Windom, Minnesota, arrived in New York City in 1985 after studies at the University of Minnesota, the University of Miami and the Eastman School of Music. She immediately sought out Bob Brookmeyer to study composition. At the same time she became an assistant ...
The Ed Palermo Big Band: Oh No! Not Jazz!!
by Vic Albani
La Big Band di Ed Palermo ha iniziato a suonare le composizioni di uno dei più grandi musicisti del secolo scorso, Frank Zappa, per puro e immenso amore nei confronti di quel genio poco dopo la sua scomparsa avvenuta il 4 dicembre del 1993. A parte la risaputa difficoltà tecnica ed esecutiva delle ...
Interview: Trumpeter/Composer Michael Sarian
Q: What are your goals as an artist? A: Right now my goal is to keep busy: keep playing, keep composing, keep working. Working on new projects, teaching, working behind the scenes at a non-profit - everything affects the music, and the more I do, the more I’ll have to say musically. Long-term, my goal as ...
David Bowie to release new "Jazz-Oriented" single
Bowie has teamed up with the Maria Schneider Orchestra to release his first new material since 2013 comeback album The Next Day David Bowie has revealed he has teamed up with a leading jazz orchestra for his new single. The track, called “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," is under wraps until it is premiered ...
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