The "pre-eminent big band composer of our time" (Slate), Maria Schneider is a 2019 NEA Jazz Master and a seven-time GRAMMY award winner. Her 18-piece orchestra is made up of the most visionary instrumentalists in jazz while remaining steeped in the tradition, delivering her works with fire and swing. The group - "A Who's Who of New York jazz aces" (San Jose Mercury News) - will perform selections from Data Lords, Schneider's latest album, with the composer conducting.
A Minnesota native, Schneider was mentored by legendary jazz arrangers Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer. As Evans's copyist and assistant, she collaborated on music for a tour with Sting and helped score The Color of Money, the 1986 film directed by Martin
Scorsese. In the early '90s, she formed the Maria Schneider Orchestra and began to receive accolades for her recordings, including Concert in the Garden, Sky Blue and
The Thompson Fields. Her collaborators have ranged from David Bowie to operatic soprano Dawn Upshaw, and her band has included many top jazz soloists, including saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Steve Wilson, pianist Frank Kimbrough and drummer Johnathan Blake. Schneider is an advocate for musicians' rights and has testified before Congress about copyright issues and free online streaming. She has critiqued big data companies for their impact on privacy and culture; hence, the title of her latest recording, Data Lords.
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"To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point in two ways. She is a major composer - period." - TIME
In an age of downsizing, Maria Schneider has the panache to lead one of the world's last remaining, honest-to-goodness big bands. A consistent winner of Jazz Journalist, Downbeat and Jazztimes awards, this year she topped them off with a Grammy Award. This is full-bodied jazz. Says TIME, "Schneider's big band paints musical landscapes full of glowing pastel harmonies and sharp-angled rhythms. Listen to her sweepingly ambitious compositions, and hear the next wave of jazz taking shape before your very ears."
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A Minnesota native, Schneider was mentored by legendary jazz arrangers Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer. As Evans's copyist and assistant, she collaborated on music for a tour with Sting and helped score The Color of Money, the 1986 film directed by Martin
Scorsese. In the early '90s, she formed the Maria Schneider Orchestra and began to receive accolades for her recordings, including Concert in the Garden, Sky Blue and
The Thompson Fields. Her collaborators have ranged from David Bowie to operatic soprano Dawn Upshaw, and her band has included many top jazz soloists, including saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Steve Wilson, pianist Frank Kimbrough and drummer Johnathan Blake. Schneider is an advocate for musicians' rights and has testified before Congress about copyright issues and free online streaming. She has critiqued big data companies for their impact on privacy and culture; hence, the title of her latest recording, Data Lords.
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"To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point in two ways. She is a major composer - period." - TIME
In an age of downsizing, Maria Schneider has the panache to lead one of the world's last remaining, honest-to-goodness big bands. A consistent winner of Jazz Journalist, Downbeat and Jazztimes awards, this year she topped them off with a Grammy Award. This is full-bodied jazz. Says TIME, "Schneider's big band paints musical landscapes full of glowing pastel harmonies and sharp-angled rhythms. Listen to her sweepingly ambitious compositions, and hear the next wave of jazz taking shape before your very ears."
The "pre-eminent big band composer of our time" (Slate), Maria Schneider is a 2019 NEA Jazz Master and a seven-time GRAMMY award winner. Her 18-piece orchestra is made up of the most visionary instrumentalists in jazz while remaining steeped in the tradition, delivering her works with fire and swing. The group - "A Who's Who of New York jazz aces" (San Jose Mercury News) - will perform selections from Data Lords, Schneider's latest album, with the composer conducting.
A Minnesota native, Schneider was mentored by legendary jazz arrangers Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer. As Evans's copyist and assistant, she collaborated on music for a tour with Sting and helped score The Color of Money, the 1986 film directed by Martin
Scorsese. In the early '90s, she formed the Maria Schneider Orchestra and began to receive accolades for her recordings, including Concert in the Garden, Sky Blue and
The Thompson Fields. Her collaborators have ranged from David Bowie to operatic soprano Dawn Upshaw, and her band has included many top jazz soloists, including saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Steve Wilson, pianist Frank Kimbrough and drummer Johnathan Blake. Schneider is an advocate for musicians' rights and has testified before Congress about copyright issues and free online streaming. She has critiqued big data companies for their impact on privacy and culture; hence, the title of her latest recording, Data Lords.
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"To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point in two ways. She is a major composer - period." - TIME
In an age of downsizing, Maria Schneider has the panache to lead one of the world's last remaining, honest-to-goodness big bands. A consistent winner of Jazz Journalist, Downbeat and Jazztimes awards, this year she topped them off with a Grammy Award. This is full-bodied jazz. Says TIME, "Schneider's big band paints musical landscapes full of glowing pastel harmonies and sharp-angled rhythms. Listen to her sweepingly ambitious compositions, and hear the next wave of jazz taking shape before your very ears."
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A Minnesota native, Schneider was mentored by legendary jazz arrangers Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer. As Evans's copyist and assistant, she collaborated on music for a tour with Sting and helped score The Color of Money, the 1986 film directed by Martin
Scorsese. In the early '90s, she formed the Maria Schneider Orchestra and began to receive accolades for her recordings, including Concert in the Garden, Sky Blue and
The Thompson Fields. Her collaborators have ranged from David Bowie to operatic soprano Dawn Upshaw, and her band has included many top jazz soloists, including saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Steve Wilson, pianist Frank Kimbrough and drummer Johnathan Blake. Schneider is an advocate for musicians' rights and has testified before Congress about copyright issues and free online streaming. She has critiqued big data companies for their impact on privacy and culture; hence, the title of her latest recording, Data Lords.
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"To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point in two ways. She is a major composer - period." - TIME
In an age of downsizing, Maria Schneider has the panache to lead one of the world's last remaining, honest-to-goodness big bands. A consistent winner of Jazz Journalist, Downbeat and Jazztimes awards, this year she topped them off with a Grammy Award. This is full-bodied jazz. Says TIME, "Schneider's big band paints musical landscapes full of glowing pastel harmonies and sharp-angled rhythms. Listen to her sweepingly ambitious compositions, and hear the next wave of jazz taking shape before your very ears."
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