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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 ...
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 ...
Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2005
Track listing: Lately; The Willow; That Old Black Magic; My Ideal; Last Season; Come
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 ...
