Photo Credit: Gustav Eckart

The NEA Jazz Master, Pulitzer Prize finalist, David Bowie collaborator, and seven-time Grammy winner Maria Schneider brings her 18-member collective to Hill Auditorium for its UMS debut.

The group of visionary instrumentalists delivers her work with fire and swing. Formed as a tribute to Gil Evans, who orchestrated many of Miles Davis’s charts, Schneider’s band tackles lush and complex works that bring new energy to the jazz orchestra landscape.

They perform selections from the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Data Lords, Schneider’s critique on big data companies for their impact on privacy and culture, with the composer conducting. Of the album, NPR wrote, “It amounts to the most daring work of Schneider’s career, which sets the bar imposingly high. This is music of extravagant mastery, and it comes imbued with a spirit of risk.” Time magazine also weighed in: “To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point two ways. She is a major composer – period.”

Setlist

That Old Black Magic
Look Up
Data Lords
Stone Song
Sputnik (featuring Scott Robinson)
CQ CQ, Is Anybody There?
The Great Potoo
Thompson Fields
American Crow
Sanzenin (featuring Julien Labro) – Encore

All Compositions and Arrangements by Maria Schneider

Personnel and Instrumentation

Steve Wilson, Saxophones, Flutes, and Clarinet
Dave Pietro, Saxophones, Flutes, and Clarinet
Rich Perry, Saxophones, Flutes, and Clarinet
Donny McCaslin, Saxophones, Flutes, and Clarinet
Scott Robinson, Saxophones, Flutes, and Clarinet
Tony Kadleck, Trumpet
Greg Gisbert, Trumpet
Nadje Noordhuis, Trumpet
Mike Rodriguez, Trumpet
Keith O’Quinn, Trombone
Ryan Keberle, Trombone
Marshall Gilkes, Trombone
George Flynn, Bass Trombone
Julien Labro, Accordion
Ben Monder, Guitar
Gary Versace, Piano
Jay Anderson, Bass
Johnathan Blake, Drums
Maria Schneider, Composer/Conductor