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Sherrie Maricle

From the drum set Sherrie leads The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, her quintet FIVE PLAY and co-leads the 3Divas. From Carnegie Hall, she performs with The New York Pops and from celebrated stages everywhere, she is music director and drummer for Broadway star Maurice Hines. Sherrie is also a busy freelance performer and a published composer/arranger.

With her bands Sherrie has performed at many of the world’s most acclaimed music venues and festivals; from Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl, to Jazz Festivals in Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Ireland, England, Croatia, Japan, Vietnam and Israel and beyond. Additionally, DIVA was featured at the 2017 NEA Jazz Master’s Awards Ceremony, the soundtrack for the NBC-Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular; on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, on TCM’s televised broadcast of the 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center and NHK Japan’s New York Jazz. The band also co-stars in the award-winning documentary film The Girls in the Band.

Sherrie has received several awards and honors which include a 2014 Ovation award for “Best Music Direction” in Tappin Through Life; the 2009 Mary Lou Williams-Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2013 State Department grant for FIVE PLAY to tour Vietnam, a tour grant from Arts International, The Kennedy Center Alliance Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Arts, a grant from Meet the Composer, a Doctoral Fellowship from New York University, the New York City Music Educator’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and was twice selected New York University “Music Teacher of the Year.”

As an educator, Sherrie runs a private drum set and percussion studio. She is also a clinician for Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Aquarian Drum Heads and Vic Firth Drum Sticks. On a national level, she has served as guest conductor, soloist and adjudicator for many collegiate and high school jazz and All-State festivals. Sherrie also created and directs Musical Magic, a hospital outreach program for The Ronald McDonald House – New York.

After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985 from Binghamton University Sherrie moved to New York City and attended New York University, where she completed a Masters of Arts in Jazz Performance in 1986 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Jazz Performance/Composition in 2000.

The DIVA Jazz Orchestra’s 25th Anniversary Project (2018, ArtistShare) is the band’s most recent Cd, featuring original music composed by band members. In 2019 FIVE PLAY released “LIVE” at The Firehouse Stage (independent) and in 2016 the 3Divas recorded their self-titled inaugural Cd (independent) “LIVE” at WVIA Radio in Pittston, PA.

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Album Review

Diva Jazz Orchestra: "30": Live at Dizzy's Club

Read ""30": Live at Dizzy's Club" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The “30" in the title of the superlative all-woman Diva Jazz Orchestra's latest album stands for 30 years, which, believe it or not, is how long the orchestra and its remarkable drummer and leader, Sherrie Maricle, have been up and running and making beautiful music at home and abroad. Among U.S.-based big bands, it would seem that only Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman have had longer runs than that. Fast company indeed. So is Diva ready for comparisons? ...

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3D Jazz Trio: 9 to 5

Read "9 to 5" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


One can't help but learn about the meaning of style and sophistication from the 3D Jazz Trio. Since the release of its debut--3Divas (Self-Produced, 2017)--pianist Jackie Warren, bassist Amy Shook and drummer Sherrie Maricle have proven to be a collective paragon of taste. Whether swinging for the fences, setting scenes ablaze in Latin quarters, captivating with balladic charms or taking playfulness to new peaks, this band is always a model for musicality. On this, the group's third ...

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The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway

Read "Swings Broadway" reviewed by Jack Bowers


At the ripe old age of thirty (closer to a hundred in big-band years), the superlative New York-based, all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra remains as frisky as a newborn colt, swinging up, down and around Broadway with abandon on its thirteenth album, a brisk and colorful tribute to the Great White Way that shines brightly from start to finish. The album opens and closes in a mid-1950s vein, raising the curtain with Steven Feifke's breezy, well-grooved arrangement of ...

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3D Jazz Trio: Christmas in 3D

Read "Christmas in 3D" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Still riding high on the release of I Love To See You Smile (Diva Jazz, 2020), the 3D Jazz Trio drops in again to ring in the holiday season. And while it's true that 2020 hasn't left us with much to celebrate, a chance to sit back and reflect while basking in the glow of some joyful jazz is one thing worth raising a glass of eggnog to. Leaning on familiar favorites with personalized twists, 3D immediately ...

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3D Jazz Trio: I Love To See You Smile

Read "I Love To See You Smile" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The spirit of sisterhood isn't based on size, but, rather, built on the power of kinship. If anybody in the jazz world truly understands that fact, it's drummer Sherrie Maricle. Way ahead of the curve when it comes to spotlighting the need for female empowerment and equality in the music, she's helmed the Diva Jazz Orchestra for more than a quarter of a century. And while that ensemble remains her flagship, some smaller spin-off combos that have followed it also ...

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The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: DIVA + The Boys

Read "DIVA + The Boys" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The all-female DIVA Jazz Orchesta has a boy-meets-girls story threaded into its origin, as drummer Stanley Kay served as the impetus behind the group's formation. Therefore, it's only fitting that the ladies have a few gentleman over to join them for some high times in the music every now and then. This eight-song set, recorded live at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in March of 2017, finds clarinetist Ken Peplowski, dearly departed trumpeter Claudio Roditi, trombonist Jay Ashby, and ...

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The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: DIVA + the Boys

Read "DIVA + the Boys" reviewed by Jack Bowers


After more than twenty-five years as one of the world's most renowned big bands, drummer Sherrie Maricle's superlative all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra invited a quartet of “the boys" onboard to help ensure the ensemble's twelfth album's success. Even though DIVA needs no consorts to affirm its unremitting mastery, it is nonetheless pleasurable to witness these talented women sharing the stage and blowing up a storm with such esteemed guest artists as clarinetist Ken Peplowski, trombonist Jay Ashby and (it hurts ...

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Grammy Award Winner And Diva Big Band Anchor Women In Jazz Programming

Grammy Award Winner And Diva Big Band Anchor Women In Jazz Programming

Source: Artists Recording Collective, LLC

The American Jazz Museum presents Women In Jazz Programming in March during a month-long celebration featuring a stellar line up of musicians, entertainers, music and art scholars in a wonderful cultural setting. “Women have always played a significant role in developing the music through creative compositions, stellar performances and their work behind the scenes in presenting the music. Unfortunately, these contributions have gone either unrecognized or were written out of the history books. The American Jazz Museum takes pride in ...

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Sherrie Maricle's Diva Jazz Trio at Feinstein's at Loews Regency

Sherrie Maricle's Diva Jazz Trio at Feinstein's at Loews Regency

Source: Miller Wright & Associates

FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York” by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution” by The New York Post, continues its 10th Anniversary season with the debut of THE DIVA JAZZ TRIO. Comprised of leader/drummer, Sherrie Maricle, pianist Tomoko Ohno, and bassist Noriko Ueda, THE DIVA JAZZ TRIO is the newest ensemble to emerge from the world-renowned Diva Jazz Orchestra. They will be performing selections from their debut CD on Arbors Jazz, Never ...

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Sherrie Maricle and DIVA Jazz Orchestra with Ann Hampton Callaway The Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival

Sherrie Maricle and DIVA Jazz Orchestra with Ann Hampton Callaway The Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz

September 20, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Fri-Sat, Sep 23-24 Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival Presents: Sherrie Maricle and DIVA Jazz Orchestra with Ann Hampton Callaway (special guest vocalist) Sets at 7:30 and 9:30 The Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival Jazz at Lincoln Center, 212-258-9595 Broadway at 60th Street 5th Floor www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/ “DIVA…confirmed once again what a superb ensemble this all-women big band is –impeccable section work and tremendous commitment all ...

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Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra with "special guest Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy's Sept. 23 & 24 Sets are at 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 11:30pm

Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra with "special guest Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy's  Sept. 23 & 24 Sets are at 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 11:30pm

Source: All About Jazz

September 8, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra with special guest Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy's on Sept. 23 & 24 Sets are at 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 11:30pm. This is part of the “Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival." Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, located at Broadway at 60th St., 5th Floor. 212-258-9595. New CD Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra TNT-A Tommy Newsom Tribute Diva Jazz ...

“Maricle drove the evening’s music along with a contained fury of the power plant of a nuclear submarine…”Hamilton Spectator

“[Sherrie Maricle] is an incredibly gifted drummer who has super human technique combined with first class musicianship…”Saxophone Journal

“She worked her way around the drums as both a rock-steady time keeper and dynamic soloist…”Binghamton Press

“Maricle’s lively inventive chops proved that not all straight-ahead drummers are mere time keepers…”Downbeat

“[Sherrie Maricle] has always had the power to burn, but during her years in New York she has developed the subtle side of her technique, employing dynamics to whisper as well as roar…”Binghamton Press

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Primary Instrument

Drums

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Phd from New York University. Teacher of the year in 1997 and 2000 at NYU. Have a home studio with double drum sets.

Clinic/Workshop Information

Anything related to drums, percussion, jazz, composing/arranging

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Swings Broadway

Diva Records
2022

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9 to 5

Self Produced
2022

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9 to 5

Self Produced
2022

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DIVA + the Boys

MCG Jazz
2020

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