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TWO ORCHESTRAL PREMIERES BY GRAMMY-WINNING COMPOSER MARIA SCHNEIDER BOTH FEATURING WORLD-RENOWNED SOPRANO DAWN UPSHAW

30 Wednesday Mar 2011

Posted by Rob Young in Big Band (Modern Ensemble), Concerts, Festivals & Tours, Improvised Music, Live Music, Modern Jazz, What's New?

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aint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Jazz, Maria Schneider, Ojai Festival

Carnegie Hall with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra – May 13 and Ojai Festival with the Australian Chamber Orchestra – June 12

“She now has become entrenched among the ranks of America’s leading composers….For Schneider, the question is no longer whether she can sustain the heights she has attained on earlier recordings; it is now how far her musical journey will take her.” – James Hale, DownBeat

Maria Schneider

Maria Schneider’s music has been hailed by critics as “evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization.” For the past 20 years Schneider has written primarily for her own jazz orchestra, yet during those years she was pushing boundaries, augmenting the standard 17-piece band with an accordion here, or flamenco cajon there, mixing in Brazilian rhythms and birdcalls with her Midwest sensibilities. In recent years she has definitively embraced more classical forms and orchestras, blending unique sounds in her own recordings that include commissions from Peter Sellars and Vienna’s Mozart Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the American Dance Festival.

Now Carnegie Hall will host the New York premiere of “Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories” with Maria conducting Dawn Upshaw and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra on May 13, 2011. It was three years ago that Upshaw, then artistic partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, first brought forth the idea to have the orchestra commission Maria to write a work for voice and orchestra. Maria chose poetry by Brazilian poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade Carlos, with English translations by Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Mark Strand. Continue reading →

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Flux Music Essentials … featuring [Corea, Malheiros, McBride, Sanchez & Schneider]

26 Monday Jul 2010

Posted by Rob Young in Brazilian Jazz, Flux Music Essentials, Improvised Music, Latin Jazz, Modern Jazz, What's New?

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Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Jazz, Maria Schneider, Poncho Sanchez, Sabrina Malheiros

Flux Music Essentials


Greeting’s fellow jazz enthusiasts, I’m back in the mix with another tantalizing yet satisfying blend of original jazz that’s shaken and stirred to perfection from the shelves of “Flux Music Essentials.”

Chick Corea & Friends - Remembering Bud Powell

Chick Corea & Friends -//- Remembering Bud Powell – [Stretch Records, 1997]

Playing is genuinely inspired throughout. No one sounds half-hearted, not one note sounds contrived, and the songs are wonderfully different from each other. The album didn’t immediately serve my ears, but met me halfway; leaving me ‘educated’, and better for having purchased it. It’s true what they say about loving the albums you aren’t initially fond of, because that was true with Remembering Bud Powell. It was above me, but I am growing to appreciate the maturity of the album. Except for Bud Powell (Corea’s invention), all of the songs come from Powell’s songbook. And yet despite their age, the arrangements sound youthful and new, due to the level of enthusiasm displayed by Corea and his friends.

Even Roy Haynes’ drumming sounds richly melodious; subtle changes in volume and rhythm indicate an involvement and ownership of the music which surpass usual expectations of a timekeeper. While listening to the album one becomes aware of the uniqueness of one particular musician, and that is Kenny Garrett. His playing is angular , extremely expressive, and always interesting. His playing on Mediocre is so intricate and unexpected that it must be dealt with-either by hating it or loving it. The unspoken connection made by this group of players is best exemplified during the transitions from solo to solo. I find that my favorite thing to look for in this album, besides the individual sounds of Garrett and Haynes, is the interaction between soloists, and the way each player expects and anticipates the other’s thoughts. This album is too deep to ever become irrelevant or boring. —Amazon.com Continue reading →

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VERTICAL VOICES: THE MUSIC OF MARIA SCHNEIDER JULIA DOLLISON AND KERRY MARSH

16 Tuesday Mar 2010

Posted by Rob Young in Modern Jazz, New Music, Vocals

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Jazz, Maria Schneider

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AVAILABLE NOW ON ARTISTSHARE®

“What these two stellar musicians have done here is nothing short of amazing. What an extraordinary combination of talent, ambition and heart! I’m most impressed.” – Maria Schneider

Maria Schneider - Vertical Voices

When vocalists Julia Dollison and Kerry Marsh first proposed the concept of their new ArtistShare® CD Vertical Voices: The Music of Maria Schneider to the multi-Grammy Award-winning composer herself, she immediately thought they were “absolutely insane.” Using their two voices via studio multi-tracking, the duo would create a virtual vocal orchestra by wordlessly singing the brass and woodwind parts in Schneider’s lush, harmonically deep and rhythmically complex compositions. After listening to a sample portion of “Journey Home” that the pair had quickly recorded in their home studio, Maria generously endorsed the project and even pitched the idea to her own orchestra’s rhythm section: Ben Monder, guitar; Frank Kimbrough, piano; Jay Anderson, bass; Clarence Penn, drums.

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