Photo: Margot Schulman
Maria Schneider conducts at the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. Also pictured: Kenny Rampton (trumpet).
Born Nov. 27, 1960, in Windom, Minn., Maria Schneider celebrates her birthday with her Orchestra every Thanksgiving week at the Jazz Standard in New York. It's always a sell-out — every set, every night.
Schneider put her first New York band together in the 1980s, and it played Monday nights at Visiones, a Greenwich Village club near NYU. People flocked to see and hear this slim, petite, confident newcomer from Minnesota and her handsome band. Visiones would get so full that fans stood on the sidewalk, peering in the windows.In 1994, Schneider released an album with the name of her mentor Gil Evans embedded in the title: Evanescence. She followed Evanescence with Coming About and the opening track "El Viento," commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. At the time, Schneider told JazzSet, "When I think that, for the rest of my life, I'm going to be trying to figure out what am I going to be writing next, it's kind of scary."
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