Monika Herzig (born 1964) is a German-born jazz pianist.
After receiving a scholarship in 1987 from the pedagogical institute in Weingarten,Germany for a one-year exchange program at the University of Alabama,she moved to the United States in August 1988. Later,she completed her Doctorate in Music Education with a minor in Jazz Studies at Indiana University School of Music, [1] where she is a faculty member in Arts Administration. [2] She Taught at both Indiana University Bloomington and Indianapolis.
She recorded with the jazz fusion group BeebleBrox and has produced four albums as leader of the Monika Herzig Acoustic Project. Peace on Earth was released locally in Indianapolis in 2008 [3] and was released nationally in 2009 on the Owl Studios label. She is the founder and leader of the jazz group Sheroes;the group's self-titled album,Sheroes,was recorded in 2018 and released on Whaling City Sound. [4]
Hoagland Howard Carmichael was an American musician,composer,songwriter,actor,author and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 1940s,and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as old-time radio broadcasts,television,microphones,and sound recordings.
David Nathaniel Baker Jr. was an American jazz composer,conductor,and musician from Indianapolis,as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program. From 1991 to 2012,he was conductor and musical and artistic director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He has more than 65 recordings,70 books,and 400 articles to his credit.
Emily Remler was an American jazz guitarist,active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990.
Dorothy Jeanne Thompson,better known as Dorothy Ashby,was an American jazz harpist,singer and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950s" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument,beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument,proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz,such as the saxophone or piano.
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington,Indiana,is a music conservatory established in 1921. Until 2005,it was known as the Indiana University School of Music. It has more than 1,500 students,approximately half of whom are undergraduates,with the second largest enrollment of all music schools accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
Steve Davis is an American jazz drummer.
Martin Louis Paich was an American pianist,composer,arranger,record producer,music director,and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee,Ella Fitzgerald,Stan Kenton,Al Hirt,Art Pepper,Buddy Rich,Ray Brown,Shorty Rogers,Pete Rugolo,Ray Charles and Mel Tormé. His long association with Torméincluded one of the singer's earliest albums,Mel Torméwith the Marty Paich Dek-Tette. Over the next three decades he worked with pop singers such as Andy Williams and Jack Jones and for film and television. He is the father of David Paich,a founding member of the rock band Toto.
Ingrid Jensen is a Canadian jazz trumpeter.
Owl Studios is a jazz record label founded in Indianapolis,Indiana,in 2005. In 2013 the label was sold and renamed Owl Music Group.
Frank Glover is a contemporary jazz musician and composer from Indianapolis,Indiana. Although he plays saxophone as well,Glover's primary instrument is the clarinet. For decades,his mentor and collaborator was Indianapolis jazz pianist Claude Sifferlen. Glover is based in southern Indiana where he teaches music theory and improvisation from his studio near the T.C. Steele Historic Site.
Buselli–Wallarab Jazz Orchestra is a jazz orchestra consisting of seventeen pieces.
Pete Wilhoit is an American drummer and a member of the band Fiction Plane.
Rob Dixon is an American jazz saxophonist.
Phil Moore was an American jazz pianist,arranger,and bandleader.
Le Chat Qui Pêche is a Parisian jazz club and restaurant founded in the mid-1950s,located in a cellar in rue de la Huchette in the Latin Quarter,on the left bank of the Seine.
American Piano Awards is a non-profit performing arts organization based in Indianapolis,Indiana. The organization's goal is to "discover,promote,and advance" the careers of young American pianists. The organization hosts a biennial competition called the American Piano Awards,which switches focus from classical piano to jazz piano every two years. Valued at over $200,000,the awards of the competition are among the most lucrative piano prizes in the world. The Cole Porter Fellowship,awarded to the winner of the jazz competitions,is one of the greatest honors young American jazz musicians can receive. In non-competition years,the organization hosts a piano recital series,and from 2003 through 2008,the organization produced Indy Jazz Fest.
Reginald DuValle (1893–1953) was an American jazz pianist,accordion player,and a bandleader from Indianapolis,Indiana,who taught jazz singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael improvisation on the piano.
Sara Caswell is an American violinist who has worked with 9 Horses,Esperanza Spalding,and David Krakauer.
Whaling City Sound is an independent jazz record label established by Neal Weiss in 1999.
East to Wes is a studio album by the jazz guitarist Emily Remler. She was accompanied by the pianist Hank Jones,who had played on Firefly (1981),her first record,the double bass player Buster Williams and the drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith.
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