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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.

The Gennett Suite

By Brent Wallarab

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
December 6, 2023

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

July 10, 2023

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
June 6, 2023

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
May 8, 2023

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 ...

Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra

Active since: 1994

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.

Charleston Jazz Orchestra at the Charleston Music Hall

by Martin McFie
February 20, 2020

Charleston Jazz Orchestra Charleston Music Hall Ellington at Newport 1956 Charleston, SC February 15, 2020 Duke Ellington's performance at the Newport Jazz festival in 1956 was the most important of his long career. After thirty years at the top of his profession, over a thousand tunes composed together with Billy ...

"The David Baker Songbook"

December 21, 2010

David Baker is a renowned jazz educator and bandleader who came out of Indianapolis' great Indiana Avenue scene of the mid-20th century, counting among his friends and colleagues Wes Montgomery, J.J. Johnson, and Freddie Hubbard. His jazz resume is studded with notable accomplishments, associations, and awards. He came up as a standout trombonist and switched to ...

Happenstance

By Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra

Label: Midcoast Music
Released: 2000
Track listing: A Gentle Fall; Jovian Comets; Happenstance; My One and Only Love; Everything I Love; Azure; Cottontail; Nature Boy; I Remember Sherrie; The Trouble with Triplets; Taboo; Long Ago and Far Away.