Maria Schneider Orchestra - Evanescence

Originally released in 1994

"If, like me, you miss the airy orchestral jazz of Gil Evans, this CD is proof that dreams do come true.  … this is exciting, rich-textured music from a major new voice."
– DENVER POST – Jeff Bradley

"This recording is one of the most promising big band debuts in a long time … Somebody should send this orchestra out on the road."
– LOS ANGELES TIMES – Bill Kohlhaase

"She displays an impressive range, in the construction of pieces where the architecture owes more to the philosophy and aesthetics of the builders of finely chiseled cathedrals, than to today’s concrete frenzy. There is here, obviously at work, a strength and a conviction which knows the price of liberty, and the necessity, for this liberty, to be anchored to a form, at once open and safely marked out, to avoid getting lost. In such a sumptuous case (a velvet hand in an iron glove), the soloists give the best of themselves, and, perhaps, even more (Margitza, Ries, Monder, Hagans, Werner and, mostly, Perry)."
– JAZZ MAGAZINE – Jean-Paul Ricard (translated from French