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Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords

Read "Data Lords" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


C'è molto da dire sul nuovo album di Maria Schneider ma la prima e più importante considerazione riguarda la musica: sorprendente per ricchezza e novità di soluzioni, tensione narrativa e sintesi tra ricerca e tradizione. È uno dei suoi dischi più avvincenti e innovativi. L'incubazione del progetto è durata alcuni anni (il precedente The Thompson Fields è del 2015) e si lega alla presa di coscienza della bandleader sui pericoli connessi alla raccolta dei dati personali dalle società dell'universo digitale. ...

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Maria Schneider: Data Lords

Read "Data Lords" reviewed by Pat Youngspiel


Well someone doesn't seem too happy with the digital world. But that's nothing new for Maria Schneider. The Grammy-award winning composer and bandleader has been an outspoken critic of copyright abuses in the digital and streaming world of music for the biggest part of the last decade. On her newest effort, she sets her justified quarrels with the industry to music by juxtaposing the cold world of ones and zeroes, comprised on the first CD titled “The Digital World," in ...

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Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords

Read "Data Lords" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Composer Maria Schneider has long been writing and speaking about the dangers of the omnipresent digital universe, intellectual property theft, gathering and manipulation of personal data by big tech companies, the unchecked proliferation of false and misleading material, and so on. Those concerns form the basis of her latest musical project, Data Lords, a 2 CD set examining the conflicting realities of the digital and real worlds. The two CDs are labeled “The Digital World" and “Our Natural ...

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Maria Schneider: Data Lords

Read "Data Lords" reviewed by Doug Hall


Maria Schneider, jazz pianist, orchestral composer and 2019 NEA Jazz Master, has just released a new double-album, Data Lords (artistShare, 2020), which creates poignant musical imagery about our data-driven world. Schneider, who has been an active advocate for musicians' rights and copyright, has followed-on this impact, citing “big data" companies as manipulators of music, culture and privacy. This collection of uniquely and emotionally rendered original compositions addresses the conflicting relationships between the digital and natural worlds, featuring Schneider's orchestra of ...

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Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords

Read "Data Lords" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


The skillfully designed cover art tells part of the story; a leaf--half as nature intended--the remainder, a circuit board doppelganger. The pastoral soundscapes associated with the music of Grammy-winning composer/bandleader Maria Schneider belie her activist alter-ego. An outspoken critic of copyright protections, prejudicial revenue schemes and the abuses of “big data," Schneider has authored op-eds and testified before the US Congress. She ventures onto unfamiliar terrain, coalescing her passions on a masterwork double album, Data Lords. The two ...

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George Flynn & Katherine Hughes: Together

Read "Together" reviewed by Jim Santella


On this aptly titled disc, the chamber music duo of George Flynn and Katherine Hughes provides its audience with an hour of melodramatic adventure. Moods change, the pace runs through varying climates, and both instrumentalists interpret with clarity. The three suites were recorded in Chicago: in 1992, 1995 and 2005. Flynn and Hughes' lasting musical relationship has given both artists the freedom to express themselves on a personal level without regard to outside influences, pouring music directly from the heart.

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George Flynn: Trinity

Read "Trinity" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Chicago based composer/pianist George Flynn flexes quite a bit of muscle throughout the solo piano performances contained within this 2-Disc set, as the pieces titled, “Kabal” and “Wound” were originally issued in 1987 on LP format for the Atlantic Records subsidiary, “Finnadar Records”. Flynn, who holds the - Chair of Music at DePaul University’s School of Music - authored the compositions which comprise Trinity between 1968 and 1993, while the pianist consummated the project in 1999.

At times, these solo ...

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Southport Records Presents George Flynn

Southport Records Presents George Flynn

Source: All About Jazz

SOUTHPORT RECORDS CD RELEASE PARTY: GEORGE FLYNN AMERICAN CITY (Pianist and Composer, Recording and Performing Artist, Educator)

IN A LIVE PERFORMANCE FEATURING: LARRY COMBS (Principal Clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1978 2008); with Julie DeRoche (Clarinetist performing regularly with the CSO and Chicago Chamber Musicians); Joanna Jamroziak (Soprano performs with Millennium Chamber Players); and special guest Janice Misurell-Mitchell (Composer, Flute and Voice member of CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble).

DETAILS: Katerinas Saturday, May 2, 2009 6:30 ...

Jennifer Wharton
trombone, bass

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Data Lords

ArtistShare
2020

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Together

Southport Records
2006

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