MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA: SKY BLUE

MARIA SCHNEIDER
Embora neste álbum não tenha nenhuma composição com cores latinas, MARIA SCHNEIDER tem crédito suficiente pelos seus álbuns anteriores, onde esbanjou intimidade com os "montunos". Sua biografia se encontra nas postagens anteriores. Além do mais, prá "salvar a pátria", a cantora brasileira LUCIANA SOUZA e o grande percussionista dominicano PERNELL SATURNINO integram o time de craques dirigido pela bela Maria.
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ALBUM REVIEWS
"She now has become entrenched among the ranks of America's leading composers. ... For Schneider, the question is no longer whether she can sustain the heights she has attained on earlier recordings; it is now how far her musical journey will take her."
-- DOWNBEAT ***** -- James Hale

"...on this disc [Sky Blue] she has incited seven adventurous and heart-stoppingly gorgeous solos from various long-term band members, wrapping each of their eloquent statements in the grandeur, the majestic ebb and flow of her twenty-piece ensemble."
-- ALL ABOUT JAZZ -- Dan McClenaghan

"Blue, as in "Sky Blue" and "Cerulean Skies," reflects the young colorist's Picasso-like "blue period." Like the symbolic overtones associated with the color itself, Schneider's luminous, azure odes are imbued with mystery and serenity, beauty and truth."
-- HARTFORD COURANT -- Owen McNally

"What she does, across the five elegant tracks of Sky Blue, is to create new strands of melody - finely crafted yet tough as steel cable - set within orchestrations that are richly detailed and unhurried, lush but never schmaltzy."
"The disc [Sky Blue] is by far her most ambitious. It is also much more than your father's big band jazz dressed up with classical flourishes. It is integrated, orchestral, composed with specific musicians in mind and among the most arresting, accomplished music of the new century."
-- THE OTTAWA CITIZEN -- Doug Fischer
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ALBUM RELEASE
"Maria Schneider tells stories in music as well as great novelists tell them in words. On her new album, "Sky Blue," she puts together stories that speak with the clarity of Ernest Hemingway and the musical grace of Aaron Copland. It is touching without ever lapsing into tawdry sentiment. Accomplishing that in emotion is a feat. Doing it in music is a masterpiece. As is this album."
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MINHA OPINIÃO: não sobrou nada pra mim...tá tudo aí em cima. Eu só assino em baixo. OURO EM PÓ!

(*)Este álbum me proporcionou uma viagem de volta no tempo: a concepção e até mesmo a sonoridade da orquestra em alguns momentos, me lembram os experimentos de STAN KENTON e seu "progressive jazz" dos anos 50.
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MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA: SKY BLUE
Original Release Date: 2007
Label: ArtistShare

PERSONNEL:

MARIA SCHNEIDER - composer, conducer and arranger of all tracks.

STEVE WILSON - alto/soprano/clarinet/flute/alto flute
CHARLES PILLOW - alto/clarinet/piccolo/flute/alto flute/bass flute
RICH PERRY - tenor/flute
DONNY MCCASLIN - tenor/clarinet
SCOTT ROBINSON - baritone/clarinet/bass clarinet
TONY KADLECK - trumpet/flügelhorn
JASON CARDER - trumpet/flügelhorn
LAURIE FRINK - trumpet/flügelhorn
INGRID JENSEN - trumpet/flügelhorn
KEITH O'QUINN - trombone
RYAN KEBERLE - trombone
MARSHALL GILKES - trombone
GEORGE FLYNN - bass trombone/contrabass trombone
BEN MONDER - guitar
FRANK KIMBROUGH - piano
JAY ANDERSON - bass
CLARENCE PENN - drums
GARY VERSACE - accordion on The Pretty Road, Aires de Lando and Cerulean Skies
LUCIANA SOUZA - voice on The Pretty Road and Cerulean Skies
GONZALO GRAU - cajon/palmas/percussion on Aires de Lando (right) and percussion on Cerulean Skies
JON WIKAN - cajon/palmas on Aires de Lando (left) and percussion on Rich's Piece and Cerulean Skies

Bird sounds on Cerulean Skies:

Rich Perry - Bird 1
Ingrid Jensen - Bird 2
Maria Schneider - Bird 3
Scott Robinson - Bird 4
Jason Carder - High Chirps
Pernell Saturnino - Variety of high twittering birds
Marshall Gilkes - One small twittering bird

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1.The 'Pretty' Road
2.Aires de Lando
3.Rich's Piece
4. Cerulean Skies
5.Sky Blue

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