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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 ...
Maria Schneider Reimagines the Big Band
From simple start, a sophisticated style A small-town childhood in southwest Minnesota, complete with figure-skating lessons and swoops across the vast emptiness of the plains in a six-seater aircraft piloted by a dad who works in the crop business, isn't exactly a classic antecedent of a career in jazz. more stories like this But there's nothing ...
Maria Schneider: Sky Blue
by AAJ Italy Staff
La ArtistShare è una casa discografica che si fonda su di una idea produttiva intelligente alla quale, con successo, stanno aderendo molti artisti americani. In pratica si tratta di trovare fans e appassionati disponibili ad autotassarsi secondo diverse possibilità e impegni per ricoprire il ruolo di produttori di un progetto discografico sul quale l’artista ha un ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The warmest of accolades have already been heaped upon Maria Schneider's new record, and deservedly so. How, everyone seems to wonder, could Schneider possibly top the Grammy-winning Concert in the Garden (ArtistShare, 2004)? Forget that. How could she possibly top the first four minutes of “The Pretty Road," the track that opens Sky Blue? Somehow, Ingrid ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Budd Kopman
Maria Schneider and her orchestra (and yes, it is an orchestra and not a band) demonstrate everything that is right with ArtistShare specifically and jazz in general, with the miraculous Sky Blue being but the latest example. In a perfect world, ArtistShare would not have to exist, since record companies would deal honestly ...
