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Brent Wallarab

Brent Wallarab is David N. Baker Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and associate professor of music in jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Since 1991, he has been lead trombonist with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the jazz orchestra in residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. As lead trombonist, he specializes in recreating the entire spectrum of jazz brass styles.
In 1992, Wallarab was appointed specialist in jazz for the Smithsonian Institution and serves as transcriber, researcher, editor, and advisor for the Smithsonian's extensive jazz program.
Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Dave Stryker, who is at home in any venue, Goes to the Movies on this ambitious album, wherein his working quartet is greeted by a thirty-piece orchestra with strings and four talented guest artists. There are some gems here--Henry Mancini's Dreamsville," Rodgers and Hammerstein's Edelweiss," Ennio Morricone's theme from Cinema Paradiso among them--and a few ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Dan McClenaghan
These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...
Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra: Time Takes Odd Turns

by Jack Bowers
Time is not the only thing that has taken odd turns in composer/trumpeter Tom Johnson's life and career. Even though a musician at heart, he chose a more practical and lucrative path, spending his adult years as a psychologist and full-time professor at Indiana State University, placing his dream of a musical career on hold while ...
The Gennett Suite

Label: Patrois Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Movement 1--Royal Blue: Introduction; Tin Roof Blues, Part 1; Tim Roof
Blues, Part 2;
Chimes Blues; Dippermouth Blues. Movement 2--Blues Faux Bix: Davenport Blues;
The Jazz
Me Blues; Interlude; Wolverine Blues. Disc 2: Movement 3: Hoagland--Stardust;
Riverboat
Shuffle, Part 1; Riverboat Shuffle, Part 2. Movement 4--Mr. Jelly Lord: King Porter
Stomp;
Grandpa's Spells.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Dan McClenaghan
The top jazz recordings of the year in the order (more or less) that they came in the door. Concerning the recorded jazz offerings in in 2023, we could quote Frank Sinatra singing Ervin Drake's lyrics in the 1966 Grammy winner: It was a very good year." It is difficult to pick a favorite. These are ...
Dippermouth Blues

Album: The Gennett Suite
By Brent Wallarab
Label: Patrois Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:15
Buselli / Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite

by Dan McClenaghan
This is where music for mass consumption--recorded music--started, in Richmond, Indiana, in the 1920s, in a piano factory by the railroad tracks in a glacier-carved gorge. Established in 1887, in the beginning Starr Pianos' bread and butter was pianos, but they branched out to selling other instruments and eventually photographs and records--their own records, recorded in ...
2023 American Pianists Awards

by Mark Sullivan
2023 American Pianists Awards Indianapolis, Indiana April 20-22, 2023 The mission of the American Pianists Association is to discover, promote and advance the careers of young, American, world-class jazz and classical pianists." One of the major activities in that mission is the bi-annual competitions run by the Association, alternating classical and jazz ...
About Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
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Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra

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Buselli–Wallarab Jazz Orchestra is a jazz orchestra consisting of seventeen pieces.
BWJO co-founders Mark Buselli and Brent Wallarab are music educators, as well as musicians and composers. Their common commitment to America's jazz heritage brought the BWJO to life and helped define the mission of the organization. They regularly hold concerts and clinics at public schools in Indianapolis.