“To call Maria Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point,” said TIME Magazine. “She is a major composer, period.” For more than two decades, beginning with her orchestra’s debut album Evanescence (1994), Schneider has developed a deeply personal way of writing for the seventeen–member collective; like Duke Ellington, she has tailored her compositions to highlight the uniquely creative voices of her soloists. Schneider and her orchestra have established a distinguished recording career with nine GRAMMY nominations and two GRAMMY Awards; her 2004 album Concert in the Garden made his­tory as the first recording sold only on the Internet to win a GRAMMY. “Schneider's management of such technical elements as harmonic shading and thematic modulation is impeccable. Far more important is her gift for creating music identical with emotion. . . she has lived long enough to look back on her life through time’s fading light, and to have known change, including the passing of much that she loved. Music is her means of holding on to what would otherwise be lost. It is everyone’s hope.” Come and welcome her back for her annual residency at Jazz Standard. (Stereophile) Steve Wilson, Dave Pietro, Rich Perry, Donny McCaslin, Scott Robinson - Reeds Tony Kadleck, Greg Gisbert, Augie Haas, Mike Rodriguez - Trumpets Keith O’Quinn, Ryan Keberle, Marshall Gilkes, George Flynn - Trombones Gary Versace - Accordion Lage Lund - Guitar Frank Kimbrough - Piano Jay Anderson - Bass Johnathan Blake - Drums Rogerio Boccato - Percussion