Winter Morning Walks

Winter Morning Walks is a studio album by Maria Schneider and Dawn Upshaw.^[4][5][6] The album won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical in 2014.

Winter Morning Walks
Studio album by Maria Schneider
Released	2013
Recorded	2 and 3 May 2012; 26 and 27 September 2012
Studio	American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ted Mann Concert Hall at the University of Minnesota
Genre	Jazz, big band
Length	77:21
Label	ArtistShare
Producer	David Frost
Maria Schneider chronology
Sky Blue (2007) Winter Morning Walks (2013) The Thompson Fields (2015)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]
The Australian	[2]
The Guardian	[3]

Reception

Vincent Plush of The Australian wrote "Schneider's music hails from the glorious American tradition of song-setting from Gershwin to Sondheim, framed in the open prairie sonorities of Copland and gentle jazz-inflected barbs of John Adams. It flows in an unbroken expressive stream, lyrical and ingratiating to the ear. Her melodies elevate Kooser's prosaic lines, suggesting an opera composer of uncommon promise".^[2]

Fred Kaplan of Stereophile stated: "This is gorgeous music. There are shards and strands of Copland, Sondheim, Barber, and Ives, though the sound is distinctively Schneider, who is ever-evolving into a composer of—beyond genre—Great American Music".^[7]