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Maria Schneider: Hang Gliding (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

As a major figure in contemporary big band composition, Mrs. Schneider's use of lush textures and complex, yet satisf...

John Pizzarelli: This Can't Be Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 22, 08

John Pizzarelli is a jazz guitarist born in 1960. His father Bucky Pizzarelli is a jazz guitarist born in 1926. But...

Maria Schneider: The 'Pretty' Road (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 28, 07

Maria Schneider continues to impress with her 13-minute "The 'Pretty' Road" from her Sky Blue CD. Frank Kimbrou...

Maria Schneider: Evanescence (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Maria Schneider honors her mentor Gil Evans -- whom she assisted in various musical pursuits during the last three ye...

Maria Schneider: Cerulean Skies (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 08, 08

We have come to expect grand things from Maria Schneider, and she delivers again on "Cerulean Skies" -- a 22-minute t...

Maria Schneider: Bird Count (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Maria Schneider wrote "Bird Count," a tribute to Parker and Basie, while still at Eastman School of Music over 25 yea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Maria Schneider (featuring Scott Robinson): The Willow (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

Beginning in the early 1990s, Maria Schneider has emerged as the strongest modern-day baritone-centric big band arran...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Joe Henderson: Black Narcissus (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 05, 08

This is clearly one of the most beautiful slow jazz waltzes ever written. Henderson first recorded it with a small en...

Bossa Still Sounds Nova Fifty Year Later posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 27, 08

Tim Wilkins, a frequent contributor to these pages and editor of the jazz.com Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians, repor...

Dave Grusin: I Feel Pretty (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 15, 09

Forty years after West Side Story hit big, pianist Dave Grusin decided to revisit and maybe revitalize Bernstein's mu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

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