(enlace) Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Maria Schneider and her orchestra performing the new and the old in the JVC Jazz Festival. By BEN

By BEN RATLIFF

Maria Schneider's orchestral jazz is about feeling. Like Wayne Shorter, she somehow expresses compassion through tones. Ms. Schneider, though, is more programmatic about it. She will set herself the task of writing music about intersecting circles in a Kandinsky painting, or hang gliding, or the symmetry in Coltrane's "Giant Steps." But instead of reducing those ideas to formal devices, she tries to get at what it feels like to be intersecting circles, or an object in the air, or a set of chord changes.

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