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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 ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
When a jazz album is as successful as composer/arranger/conductor Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden (ArtistShare, 2004), there's a different expectation for the followup. Winning a Grammy and being on many top ten lists can ring the death knell for a pop album, since fans expect the followup to be an even greater event. But with ...
Concert in the Garden
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2004
Track listing: Concert in the Garden, Three Romances: part 1--Choro Dancado; part 2--Pas De Deux; part 3--Danca Ilusoria; Buleria, Solea Y Rumba
Maria Schneider: Concert in the Garden
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Lush harmonies evoking a sense of romance and dynamic rhythms alluding to dance abound on composer/arranger Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden. She assuredly guides her 17-piece band through cinematic compositions that would feel at home in a Golden Age Hollywood epic. Schneider is more interested in exploring the melodic, harmonic and textural possibilities the instrumentation ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Concert in the Garden
by Jerry D'Souza
Maria Schneider's first three recordings have been admirable, due not only to her insight as a composer and her skills as an arranger, but also to the musicians that make up her orchestra. It is they who are the architects of her plan, and they get fully involved, giving the final edifice a rich presence and ...
Maria Schneider: Concert In The Garden
by AAJ Staff
With her new release, the magnificent Concert In The Garden , composer-arranger Maria Schneider has taken very real artistic and commercial risks. She has produced the CD herself, and has authorized a limited release, available only from her website. She has taken complete artistic and financial control of her music, with all the uncertainties inherent therein. ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Concert in the Garden
by Dan McClenaghan
Composer/arranger Maria Schneider, at the helm of her seventeen-piece orchestra, soars back and forth over the blurry line that separates classical music and jazz on Concert in the Garden , her first CD offering since 2000's Grammy-nominated Allegresse.With Schneider's compositions, movement seems always a theme. From her gravity-defying “Hang Gliding" on Allegresse to her ...
