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The Thompson Fields is an album by the Maria Schneider Orchestra that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2017. Schneider was the composer, conductor, and co-producer of the autobiographical work. The title comes from the Minnesota farm where she was raised.
- Jazz , Big Band
It was inspired by the view from atop a silo on the Thompson farm, outside of Windom, MN. The piece evokes the landscape of southwest Minnesota – the first solo (the piano) evoking memories, stories and ghosts of generations blowing in the wind over the waving green bean fields. The effect should be a sort of bitonal Ives-ian effect.
4 de jun. de 2015 · Maria Schneider Orchestra, The Thompson Fields. Fred Kaplan | Jun 4, 2015. As readers of this space know, I'm a huge admirer of Maria Schneider's music, but her latest, The Thompson Fields (on the ArtistShare label), breaks through to a new level.
The Thompson Fields (*****five stars) "...when the artistic offerings competing for our entertainment dollars and attention are vast compared to the days of five television channels and a handful of records labels, one artist has risen—in terms of talent and the beauty and perfection of her recent output—to an Ellington-ian level: Composer/arranger Maria Schneider."
Produced by Maria Schneider and Ryan Truesdell. Recorded at Avatar Studios, Room C, New York August 26-30, 2014. Engineered by Brian Montgomery. Assisted by Thom Beemer and Tyler Hartman. Mixed by Brian Montgomery, Maria Schneider, and Ryan Truesdell. Mastered by Gene Paul at G&J Audio.
Downloadable PDF study score (transposed) for the composition, "The Thompson Fields". Streamed video where Maria discusses the writing of this piece. Streamed video of Frank Kimbrough discussing his piano solo section. Downloadable MP3 mix of track without solos for you to experiment with harmony on your own.
1 de jun. de 2015 · “The Thompson Fields,” the first album since 2007 to feature her namesake orchestra, teems with observant references to the pastoral world: prairies, exotic bird plumage, the dark gyre of a...
