Maria Baptist Trio -][- GATE 29 –Mp3– [Maria Baptist Music, 2012]
Maria Baptist, who was born in 1971 in Eastern Berlin, had the initial dream of becoming a classical pianist. But while secretly listening to Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett at the age of fifteen, she discovered a hole new world of music that she had not been exposed to. When the Berlin Wall fell, she took the opportunity to move to the capital city of Jazz itself: New York, where she was able to study with esteemed musicians such as the Jazz orchestra composer Maria Schneider. Continue reading