Maria Schneider Orchestra Presents DATA LORDS at Soka Performing Arts Center

Maria Schneider's latest double-album, Data Lords (2020), a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, winner of two Grammy Awards, named “Jazz Album of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association and NPR, and winner of France’s prestigious Grand Prix de l’Académie du Jazz, has melded her advocacy and art: Nate Chinen of NPR writes: “Now it’s finally here, in the form of a magnificent double album, Data Lords… it parses into thematic halves, “The Digital World” and, as an antidote, “The Natural World.” On the whole and in the details, it amounts to the most daring work of Schneider’s career, which sets the bar imposingly high. This is music of extravagant mastery, and it comes imbued with a spirit of risk.”

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