Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra January 22, 2009

Composer/conductor and 2005 Grammy-winner Maria Schneider has garnered comparisons to such jazz luminaries as Ellington, Mingus and her mentor Gil Evans. With intricate yet subtle compositions, her breathtaking brand of jazz "shifts from hale swing rhythm and...booming big-band style...to attenuated passages...[that] give you gooseflesh" (The New York Times).