Maria Schneider

Sonny Rollins, Maria Schneider each win 3 awards at the Jazz Awards 06/17/2009

Sonny Rollins, Schneider win at jazz awards 06/17/2009

Not Your Grandpa's Big Bands 06/03/2009

Birthday: March 27, 1952

Driven out of show business with sticks of butter following the premiere of Bernardo Bertolucci's taboo-shattering Last Tango in Paris in 1972, Maria Schneider seemed destined for the kind of whatever-happened-to obscurity normally associated with failed child television stars and mid-career burnouts. Heroin-addicted and disheartened, she disappeared for a short while, but came back ...more