Jun 18, 2024 3:30 PM
Maria Schneider: A Boxful of Treasure
Maria Schneider opened the sleek black box and placed it on a coffee table in her Manhattan apartment. Inside lay the…
Jun 18, 2024 3:30 PM
Maria Schneider opened the sleek black box and placed it on a coffee table in her Manhattan apartment. Inside lay the…
Mar 7, 2023 12:56 PM
Composer and bandleader Maria Schneider is one of 19 new members and four honorary members who will be inducted into…
Aug 3, 2022 2:25 PM
A year ago, Maria Schneider was, like many people, stuck in a pandemic holding pattern. With live gigs for The Maria…
Nov 23, 2021 1:50 PM
The readers have spoken in the 86th annual DownBeat Readers Poll, paying special tribute to recently departed legends…
Sep 14, 2021 1:02 PM
It was weeks off its usual schedule, cut back to a single weekend, yet the D.C. Jazz Festival, which held its 19th…
Aug 24, 2021 2:36 PM
Editor’s Note: This article was written to commemorate Maria Schneider’s CD Data Lords being named Album of the…
Jul 27, 2021 12:16 PM
The summer livestream calendar has been slowing down, but here are five great events to check out online this week,…
Jul 21, 2021 11:44 AM
The 69th Annual DownBeat International Critics Poll delivered a warm blanket to a jazz community shivering through the…
Jun 22, 2021 2:19 PM
Composer and bandleader Maria Schneider was named a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music for her double album Data…
Jun 15, 2021 11:43 AM
In what has to be billed as the great jazz reopening, festivals are coming back online, many with late-breaking plans…
May 18, 2021 2:20 PM
The Jazz Journalists Association announced its 2021 winners for its JJA Jazz Awards with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington…
Mar 15, 2021 1:18 PM
Chick Corea, who passed away on Feb. 9, was awarded two Grammy Awards yesterday during the 63rd annual evening honoring…
Mar 8, 2021 10:22 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, some…
Jan 8, 2021 3:57 PM
Big band leaders John Beasley and Maria Schneider, pianist Gerald Clayton, trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and…
Nov 23, 2020 12:10 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Nov 13, 2020 11:32 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Sep 4, 2020 8:59 AM
As one of the top composer-arrangers on New York’s big band jazz scene, Maria Schneider has covered a vast swath of…
Jul 6, 2020 5:39 PM
Trailblazing drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has made history numerous times in her career, and the…
Oct 21, 2019 6:56 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 84th Annual Readers Poll.
Wayne Shorter is a huge winner in…
Sep 4, 2019 9:58 AM
Though she’s only 33, saxophonist Roxy Coss already has made her mark as a bandleader, while becoming a torchbearer…
May 3, 2019 2:59 PM
On April 15, South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim; the late pianist, singer and songwriter Bob Dorough;…
Mar 4, 2019 11:29 AM
Big band leader Maria Schneider, pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, writer Stanley Crouch and the late vocalist-pianist Bob…
Jun 27, 2018 9:28 AM
Pianist Vijay Iyer, singer-songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant, flutist Nicole Mitchell, trumpeter Amir ElSaffar,…
Feb 21, 2018 12:41 PM
The 51st annual Elmhurst College Jazz Festival is set to begin Thursday, Feb. 22.
Based in Elmhurst, Illinois, just…
Nov 7, 2017 12:00 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 82nd Annual Readers Poll.
Wynton Marsalis topped the Trumpet…
Jul 22, 2018 9:44 AM
This year’s Newport Jazz Festival, held Aug. 4-6 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, marked the…
May 16, 2017 4:08 PM
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the winners of its 21st annual Jazz Awards, celebrating 41 categories…
Feb 24, 2017 11:21 AM
One of the many pleasures of a jazz festival is the parade of rhythm sections, and the first four days of this year’s…
Feb 3, 2017 5:53 PM
When Maria Schneider testified before Congress about the current U.S. copyright law’s (DMCA) notice and takedown…
Feb 6, 2017 5:15 PM
Maria Schneider’s latest work, written for her 18-person jazz orchestra, is titled “Data Lords.” It is, by her…
Dec 19, 2016 11:04 AM
The ASCAP Foundation honored acclaimed choral music composer Morten Lauridsen and groundbreaking jazz composer/…
Dec 13, 2016 11:30 AM
Maria Schneider has had a triumphant 2016. The Minnesota-born, New York-based bandleader took home top honors in the…