Score Salon:
Geoff Ogle on Maria Schneider's Hanggliding and Allegresse

July 9, 2002 at Bad Animals

Image reproduced through special permission from Maria Schneider

Jazz composer, arranger, and trombonist Geoff Ogle led a discussion on two jazz/orchestral pieces by Maria Schneider: Hanggliding and Allegresse, both from her 2000 CD Allegresse on enja records.

Named by Time magazine as "The Most Important Woman in Jazz" and awarded "Best Arranger" by Downbeat Magazine, composer Maria Schneider is enjoying a wildly successfull career that began to blossom in the 90's and continues to rise. A spiritual descendent of Gil Evans, her mentor during the last three years of his life, Schneider finds inspiration in his huge love of orchestral texture and color.

She formed her own 19-piece group in 1992. It was a regular at Greenwich Village's Visiones every Monday night from 1993-98. Europe woke up: Maria received commissions from several countries (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands) to write for the top jazz orchestras and the same thing began to happen in the USA: The Carnegie Hall Orchestra performed her compositions; The Monterey Festival premiered her suite Scenes From Childhood.

Presenter Geoff Ogle is the principal composer and arranger for GO Play Productions. Although he was born outside of San Francisco, Calif., he was raised in Seattle, Washington. He received his baccalaureate in Bass Trombone Performance and Music Education from the University of Washington where he studied with Stuart Dempster. He later received a Masters of Music in Studio Jazz Writing from the University of Miami. He has also studied composition with William O. Smith.

Geoff also just released a book of original charts entitled The Quartet Book: Chamber Music for Small Ensembles of Any Instrument Combination. The Quartet Book is a resource that includes a book of twenty-four compositions, transcriptions and arrangements and an Enhanced-CD that includes a recorded example of each piece and over 2500 computer document files in Finale, Sibelius and Acrobat formats. The book is currently on sale at Capitol Music.

Capitol Music Center is the official sponsor of the SCA Monthly Score Salon.

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