Maria Schneider

The Saga of Schneider Maria had beginning in middle of the decade of 80, when it starts to study composition with the trombonist Bob Brookmeyer and starts to be to assist of Gil Evans, being arrived to collaborate with this in the track of the film the Color of the Money and Gil Evans Sting in 1987, in the Europe. Its alone career, however, initiates in 1993 when it forms its proper orchestra and starts if to present all the Mondays in the great Visiones club in Greenwich Village, New Iorque. When recording its first records, Evanescense and Coming About, the critical success of public and was immediate. Its posterior records had relieved it compliments and awardings in the biggest American searchlights: indications the Grammy' prizes; s, nominations in the magazines Jazz Teamses and Downbeat, in the annual lists of the Association of the Journalists of Jazz (Jazz Journalist Award) and in the magazine Teams and rankings of the Billboard.

In podcast I boarding bands of only three records of Schneider Maria: Coming About (1996), Days of Waine and Roses (recorded to the living creature in the club Standard Jazz in 2000) e, finally, I show a band of the Sky Blue (2007), I finish it record that Schneider launched and that, one more time, relieved it two nominations in the Jazz Journalist Wards: The Best Composer and The Best Arranjer, in 2008. In podcast also boarding the fact of that in the decade of 90, Schneider Maria, perhaps, has been in the shade of bandleader and composer Wynton Marsalis, has seen its powerful suítes and oratories that finished relieving it prizes and headings as " One of the biggest North American composers of all tempos" - vide the Pullitzer prize given to the Blood workmanship on the Fields in 1997. But in the decade of 2000, Schneider Maria it was, really, the arrenger greater and orchestra head, breaking there some taboos that the women generally have to face when want to be stars of the jazz front to the marmanjos men and virtuoses. However, if it lacks to the Schneider Maria the imagination of the brilliant writing of Wynton Masalis, the arranger, in turn, obtained even though to show to workmanships of great lyricism and inventividade and vigor in some arrangements, since it obtained to join some of the solistas greaters of New Iorque: among them I detach the trumpetist virtuoso Tim Hagans, the saxophonist Donny McCaslin, Gary Versace, the trumpetist Ingrid Jensen, the Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza, the drummer Clarence Penn, amongst many other good musicians.

To also remember they are the details of the sound equipment, harmonization and atmosphere that Schneider Maria prints in its sweet parts: in its records it has, for example, bands of great swing and footprint bop (as in the arrangement on the subject Giant Steps de Coltrane), but these contrast with other bands that evidence interpretation, tenuous and lyric (as in Aires de Lando - of the record Sky Blue -, band softly endowed with a Latin lyricism): many times these bands sound almost as one cantábile in proverb, with a musical dynamics that goes of piano to hard, printing, in the passage, several nuances interesting. However, the music of Schneider does not sound melosa to the extremity, but pleasant contemporary sounds and - beyond what, also she has parts where it evidences the interpretation more " psicodelic" and " experimental": as in the first band of " suite" Scenes From.
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