Maria Schneider News

REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) presents The Claudia Quintet for a one-night engagement recasting jazz in shimmering new shapes inflected by minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

The 2009 Jazz series at the Hollywood Bowl concludes on Wednesday, September 9, at 8 p.m., when nine-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole triumphantly returns to the stage after undergoing successful kidney transplant surgery.

The 2009 Jazz series at the Hollywood Bowl concludes on Wednesday, September 9, at 8 p.m., when nine-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole triumphantly returns to the stage after undergoing successful kidney transplant surgery.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will embark on a two-week journey of South American music with conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the ¡Música Ardiente? Festival, May 27-June 6.The festival, presented by CNN en Español, will feature three programs.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party at Birdland was the place on a recent Monday night - what with stellar musical talent like 13's Ariana Grande, swinging jazz girls Ann Hampton Callaway and Marilyn Maye, impressionist Louise DuArt in the audience, and the debut New York appearance of internet superstar Miranda!

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will embark on a two-week journey of South American music with conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the ¡Música Ardiente? Festival, May 27-June 6.The festival, presented by CNN en Español, will feature three programs.

Move over, Ellington, Evans and Marsalis! Here comes my jazz discovery of 2007 and Canada's entry into the orchestral jazz continuum. The Canadian composer/pianist Maria Schneider formed her Grammy Award-winning Orchestra in 1993, and most of its members have been with her ever since - because she writes for them.

The Maria Schneider Orchestra, heralded as 'the foremost big-band composer of her generation (The Washington Post) will bring her 19-piece ensemble to McCarter Theatre Center on Friday, February 20 at 8 p.m. Maria Schneider's music has been described as evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization. The Minnesota-born composer and arranger moved to New York in 1985 and worked with the legendary jazz arranger Gil Evans during he last couple of years of his life. Evan's influence can be clearly heard in the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, which she formed in 1993 and which has gone on to be one of the most acclaimed and exciting large groups in jazz today.

Move over, Ellington, Evans and Marsalis! Here comes my jazz discovery of 2007 and Canada's entry into the orchestral jazz continuum. The Canadian composer/pianist Maria Schneider formed her Grammy Award-winning Orchestra in 1993, and most of its members have been with her ever since - because she writes for them.

South African Trumpeter Hugh Masekela, who was nominated for a TONY in 1988 for the score of Sarifina!, will headline The Tanglewood Jazz Festival on August 31st