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Maria Schneider's Coming About Reissued
We are happy to announce that Maria Schneider's second CD, Coming About (first released in 1996), has finally been re-mastered and re-released with a fresh new design. In addition to the mail-order CD, you will also receive two downloadable videos. The first video is Maria's look at the music today, 13 years later,giving insights that can ...
Maria Schneider at Jazz Standard: November 25-30
Grammy award winner, Maria Schneider brings back her jazz orchestra to Jazz Standard and will conduct her amazing orchestra for four nights from 11/25/08 to 11/30/08 (except 11/27/08 due to Thanksgiving). Where: Jazz Standard 116 E.27th St. New York, NY When: 11/25/08 – 11/30/08 (except 11/27/08) Who:
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Edward Blanco
Composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider won her first Grammy for her 2004 ArtistShare album, Concert In The Garden, and now has garnered two Grammy nominations for her 2007 release, Sky Blue. Nominated for “Best Large Ensemble Album and “Best Instrumental Composition ("Cerulean Skies ), Schneider cements her reputation as one of the great composers of ...
Sky Blue
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. The Pretty Road; 02. Aires de Lando; 03. Rich's Piece; 04. Cerulean Skies; 05. Sky Blue
Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New York November 20, 2007 This year's Thanksgiving week stand at the Jazz Standard, the third year in a row for the band, started off with what can only be described as a magical experience. The club ...
Maria Schneider Nominated for Two Grammys
Composer Maria Schneider & Her Acclaimed 2007 CD Sky Blue Nominated for Two Grammys, “Best Large Ensemble Album" and “Best Instrumental Composition" “5-Star Masterpiece - January 2008 DownBeat “For its marriage of precision and imagination, and the outright beauty of its broad-canvas compositions, the Maria Schneider Orchestra has no peer in the realm of ...
Maria Schneider Flies into Boston: "Look, Up in the Sky! It's an Orchestra!"
by Jason West
Maria Schneider Orchestra Berklee Performance HallBoston, Massachusetts November 17, 2007 The power of Maria Schneider's musical imagery calls to mind a variation on a superhero movie tagline: “You will believe a band can fly." And fly they did on what was their Boston debut, with the orchestra's diminutive blonde bandleader, ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Michael P. Gladstone
It will be very surprising if Maria Schneider's Sky Blue is not named as one of the most treasured albums of 2007. The album brings together the teachings of her mentor, Gil Evans, and, to some extent, the sweeping panoramas of Aaron Copland into a majestic orchestral setting. There is no question that Schneider's contributions as ...
Composer/Arranger/Bandleader Maria Schneider Interviewed at AAJ
Maria Schneider, one of the most innovative big band composer/arrangers of the past two decades, is on a roll. In an era of declining record sales and rising recording costs, she is flying high. Sky Blue (2007), her second release through ArtistShare, has garnered considerable accolades; largely fan-funded, the album is not only an artistic triumph ...
Maria Schneider: Raising the Bar
by Tom Greenland
Maria Schneider, one of the most innovative big band composer/arrangers of the past two decades, is on a roll--in an era of declining record sales and rising recording costs, she is flying high. Sky Blue (2007), her second release through ArtistShare, has garnered considerable accolades; largely fan-funded, the album is not only an artistic triumph but ...
