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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 ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by John Kelman
There's a reason that composer/bandleader Maria Schneider calls her large ensemble an orchestra. The term “big band suggests a number of inherent expectations relating to historical tradition. Schneider's group may be configured like a big band--five reeds, four trumpets, four trombones with an expanded rhythm section--but the music she writes delves into territories considerably farther afield. ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Jack Bowers
If you are fond of lovely music, and are able to look beyond categories and labels to unmask its allure, chances are you'll fall head-over-heels in love with Sky Blue, composer/arranger Maria Schneider's sixth album and third for ArtistShare. Having studied with Bob Brookmeyer and the late Gil Evans, and strived earlier in her career to ...
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: Fantasies Come True
by R.J. DeLuke
From a certain angle, it would almost appear that composer, arranger extraordinaire Maria Schneider is living in a fantasy world. Her music is highly acclaimed, her performances are killer. The commissions for compositions, conducting and arranging having come steadily, for other musical organizations as well as her own work. Her last recording not only won a ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra Live in Troy, N.Y.
by R.J. DeLuke
Maria Schneider is both painter and aural poet, able to provide the listener with a variety of textures, tempos, feelings and facets in her music. Her compositions, moreover, are presented by a superb collection of musicians, as evidenced during her Feb. 9 concert at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, N.Y. Her band ...
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 ...
