Maria Schneider: "[Windom] was a rich place to grow up. We had fabulous teachers and great families. We had a sense of community, the kind you don’t get quite as much in a big city." MinnPost’s ...

Byron Stripling is rarely at a loss for words, but the effusive director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra stumbled a bit when asked to describe the music of this weekend's guest, Maria Schneider.

Setting aside for the moment the question of her proficiency as a composer / arranger / conductor, one must concede that Maria Schneider is either a crackerjack (self)–promoter or has one of the best ...

A small-town childhood in southwest Minnesota, complete with figure-skating lessons and swoops across the vast emptiness of the plains in a six-seater aircraft piloted by a dad who works in the crop ...

David Bowie, opera star Dawn Upshaw and jazz harmonica legend Toots Thielemans were each delighted to work with acclaimed composer, arranger and orchestra leader Maria Schneider, whose seven Grammy ...

The Maria Schneider Orchestra’s Thanksgiving week residency at the Jazz Standard, which starts on Nov. 24, has become one of The Maria Schneider Orchestra’s Thanksgiving week residency at the Jazz ...

Over the past 25 years Maria Schneider has built one of jazz’s finest orchestras, a talent-laden 17-piece ensemble that interprets her majestic music with a finely calibrated balance between ...

When Maria Schneider burst onto the jazz scene nearly a quarter of a century ago, “they called her the new Duke Ellington,” Whitworth Jazz Studies director Dan Keberle said. “And she really is – she ...

The Maria Schneider Orchestra is on tour performing the Grammy-winning "Thompson Fields" this month, with six concerts on the West Coast and one in Minnesota. Is that merely a pit stop in Schneider's ...

Think of Maria Schneider as a renegade botanist who’s spent more than three decades patiently cultivating a plant that bursts into spectacular bloom when placed in just the right environment. A ...