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Maria Schneider: Composing In The Age Of Curated Rage
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on composer and avid birdwatcher Maria Schneider. Few composers working today have Maria Schneider's range. She holds seven Grammy Awards, was named an NEA Jazz Master, and this year took home the Rolf Schock Prize in Musical Arts, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. Maria Schneider joins the podcast to talk about American Crow (ArtistShare, 2026), her recent EP that uses jazz to make a case for something ...
Continue ReadingJah Wobble & Evan Parker, Maria Schneider, Nils Petter Molvaer And More
by Lawrence Peryer
This week's Rotations opens with JOEYKEYSADE, whose Afro-jazz fuses Beninese-Nigerian tradition with modern composition, then moves through Jah Wobble & Evan Parker's dub-meets-free-jazz collision, Cochemea's Yaqui and Apache-rooted explorations, and Maria Schneider's American Crow. Toronto drummer Nick Fraser anchors the third set alongside Nils Petter Molvaer, and Kamasi Washington. New releases and deep cuts, connected across continents and time. Playlist Lawrence Peryer [mic break] 00:00 JOEYKEYSADE “Interlude" from Orisun 00:56 Jah Wobble & Evan Parker “Passage to Hades" ...
Continue ReadingMaria Schneider Orchestra: American Crow
by Dan McClenaghan
Maria Schneider has a thing for birds. Credible sources have reported sightings of the jazz composer frequenting Central Park wearing a floppy hat, a pair of binoculars hanging from her neck. Her 20-plus minute “Cerulean Skies," from her album (one of her masterpieces) Sky Blue (ArtistShare, 2007) speaks to her love for birds; her fascination with their migratory nature and their arduous flights, which span continents and beyond. The composition “Bluebird," from the “Our Natural World"' half of her 2-disc ...
Continue ReadingMaria Schneider's Latest, "American Crow" + Dave Adewumi, Dawn Clement and Al Foster
by Hobart Taylor
Maria Schneider's “American Crow" debuts, new music from Chicago trumpeter Sam Robinson, Audrey Ochoa's latest and Montreal's Bellbird Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Marquis Hill “Demo 1 Dec 7" from Mixes (Black Unlimited Music) 00:15 Audrey Ochoa “Another One" from The Sorceress (Chronograph) 2:49 Sam Robinson “Leia" from Chasin' The Dream (Mile High) 8:22 Wanees Zarour “Lifta" from Silwan (Levantine) 16:00 Host Speaks 21:55 Maria Schneider “American Crow" from American Crow (ArtistsShare) 24:33 Aaron Irwin “Mississippi Hurt" from Spark ...
Continue ReadingThe Maria Schneider Orchestra at Birdland
by Paul Reynolds
The Maria Schneider Orchestra Birdland New York, NY February 4, 2026 Seeing the Maria Schneider Orchestra is always a singular experience. It's not just the music, although that is unfailingly rich and distinctive. In person, Schneider also disarms, and in the best way. At Birdland last Wednesday, the Minnesotan managed to marry the sophistication of jazz with the homespun directness of small town America through both her music and her Midwestern charm. A case in point came early ...
Continue ReadingThe Maria Schneider Orchestra at Birdland
by Paul Reynolds
Maria Schneider Orchestra Birdland Jazz Club New York, NY May 30, 2025 The late set by Maria Schneider and her orchestra on Friday at Birdland Jazz Club was so engrossing as to be a world unto itself. Every aspect of the performance--even including, in the best way, the musicians' identities--bowed to Schneider's unique mix of ambitious themes and meticulously written and arranged orchestral music. The composer-arranger-conductor doesn't fit any mold but her own. ...
Continue ReadingMaria Schneider and the Clasijazz Big Band at the Barcelona Jazz Festival
by Artur Moral
Maria Schneider & Clasijazz Big Band Paral·lel 6256th Festival de Jazz de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain November 6, 2024 Maria Schneider performed at the Barcelona Jazz Festival for the seventh time in its history, accompanied this time by the Clasijazz Big Band, a brave and successful musical project born in a place far from the nerve centers of jazz: the city of Almería, in southern Spain. Schneider, who as usual was talkative, expressed her ...
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