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The Maria Schneider Orchestra has returned after eight years. Certainly a cause for celebration, the orchestra’s album, The Thompson Fields, wildly exceeds expectations. The Thompson Fields may end up as being considered Schneider’s signature achievement—the work that captures not only the incomparable sound of her orchestra in all of its …

Often, it seems that jazz musicians proceed through a path of initial musical discovery, exposure to jazz, growth of their jazz careers, and then a final synthesis of everything they experienced along the way. For example, Monty Alexander lately has concentrated on the reggae music heard in his youth in …