You are invited to participate in a research study about the role of the Jazz Jam Sessions as a learning tool for jazz musicians. If you are a possible subject because you perform or teach jazz on any level follow this link to the survey:

Jazz Jam Survey

Completing the survey should take no longer than 10 minutes. This is phase 2 of a preliminary study conducted in 2008 and your response is much appreciated even if you participated in the preliminary survey. The significance of the results will increase greatly with increased participation, so we encourage you to pass this link along to your colleagues and students and any lists that might include further possible subjects.

The study is being conducted by Dr. Monika Herzig, Lecturer in the Arts Administration Department in the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and David Baker, Distinguished Professor of Music in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. It is funded by the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA). We expect publication of the results by Fall 2013.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of jazz jam sessions as a learning tool for musicians as well as its current social structure and etiquette. The survey is part of a larger historical and social investigation including literature reviews and in-depth interviews. Your participation is most important and much appreciated, as well as any help in disseminating this message to other prospective participants.

Please feel free to contact me any time for further info and questions.
Monika Herzig

Dr. Monika Herzig
Arts Administration, SPEA 433
Indiana University
812-855-4700
mherzig@indiana.edu
www.monikaherzig.com
Jazz Pianist – www.owlstudios.com

Ensembles consisting of Jacobs faculty, alumni and students will play classical-chamber, bop-oriented and big-band compositions by Baker. Among the alumni returning to perform are drummer Shawn Pelton, bassist Bob Hurst, pianists Michael Weiss and Jim Beard, saxophonists Ralph Bowen and Jack Wilkins, and trumpeters Pharez Whitted and Scott Wendholt. The concert, which begins at 8 p.m., will be live-streamed by the IU Jacobs School of Music on its IUMusicLive website.

There will also be an afternoon panel discussion with Baker, David Baker: a Legacy in Music author Monika Herzig, and contributing authors David Ward-Steinman, J.B. Dyas, Brent Wallarab, Lissa May, and John Edward Hasse. The panel discussion takes place at 3:00 pm in the Musical Arts Center.

David Baker: A Legacy In Music is available at Barnes & Nobles stores, Amazon and the following independent stores – to order from IU Press call 1-800-842-6796:

• Monroe County Museum Gift Shop, Bloomington, IN
• Viewpoint Books, Columbus, IN
• Bookmamas, Indianapolis, IN
• Village Lights Bookstore, Madison, IN
• Montana State University Bookstore, Bozeman, MT
• Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, WA
• Smithsonian Institution Museum Shop, Washington, DC
• University Bookstore, Seattle, WA
• Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA
• Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
• Chaucer’s Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA
• 57th Street Books, Chicago, IL
• Book Beat, Oak Park, MI
• City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
• Alamosa Books, Albuquerque, NM

Both David Baker and Monika Herzig as well as several other contributors to the book will be on hand to sign copies of David Baker: A Legacy In Music, which will be available at a discounted price. Tickets can be purchased at Sunrise Box Office, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., for $10 to the general public and $5 to students, seniors, and Jazz from Bloomington members. Dinner is $15. Ticket proceeds will benefit the Jazz in the Schools program.

• “Sandu” – featuring Killer Ray Appleton (drums), David Baker (trombone), Harold Gooch (bass), David Young (tenor saxophone); live recording from the Topper (Indianapolis), c. 1959 (10:13)
• “Le miroir noir” – Le chat qui pêche: For Orchestra, Soprano, and Jazz Quartet, featuring the Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor), Linda Anderson (soprano), Jamey Aebersold (alto and tenor saxophone), Dan Haerle (piano and electric piano), John Clayton (bass and electric bass), Charlie Craig (drums); recorded October 10, 1974; Louisville First Edition Records, 1975 (5:11)
• “Jubilee,” from Roots II – previously unreleased recording with Marianne Ackerson, piano; Sarah Caswell, violin; Mark Kosower, cello (5:11)
• “Dance of the Jitterbugs” – Basically Baker, featuring the Buselli/Wallarab
  Jazz Orchestra, soloists Mike Stricklin (tenor sax), Peter Kienle (guitar), Brent Wallarab (trombone), Tom Walsh (alto sax), Mark Buselli (flugelhorn); recorded September 4-5, 2004, Echo Park Studios, Bloomington, Indiana; GM3049, 1997 (9:46); rerelease on Owl Studios forthcoming.

• “On the Road with the Hampton Sisters” – Imagine: Indiana in Music and Words featuring David Baker (reader), Monika Herzig (piano), Frank Smith (bass), Jamey Reid (drums); with “Route 66″ (Bob Troup) and “God Bless the Child” (Arthur Herzog/Billie Holliday); ACME P 56605-49162, 2008 (5:04)