{"id":1129,"date":"2007-11-09T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T18:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2007-11-09T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T18:05:54","slug":"interim_davis_on_schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/11\/interim_davis_on_schneider\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim: Davis on Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly every waking hour is consumed by the task at hand–the settlement of a friend’s estate<\/a>–but I manage to grab a few minutes here and there in an attempt not to fall too far behind events and ideas. In August, I wrote at some length<\/a> about Maria Schneider’s CD Sky Blue<\/em>. Today, I caught up with Francis Davis’s October 30 commentary in The Village Voice<\/em> about Schneider’s relative importance as a composer. It is a thoughtful piece full of insights that, it seems to me, put her in proper perspective. Here is a key section that follows a keenly observed background paragraph preparing us to consider Schneider as a successor to Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans.<\/p>\n

Though some might deem it premature to advance Maria Schneider to the pantheon just yet, at 47 she seems to me to have all the qualifications, right down to a core of steadfast orchestra members: “Those guys play her music like they’d take a bullet for her,” another composer remarked enviously following a recent performance. Schneider’s new Sky Blue makes it easy to hear why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To read all of Davis’s essay, go here<\/a>.
\nRifftides<\/em> will be back in full swing as soon as possible. Among other things, I plan to watch and report on the rest of the new Jazz Icons<\/em> DVD series. In the meantime, please stay in touch, either by comments (link at the end of items) or by way of the e-mail address in the right-hand column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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