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Mark Buselli

Born: June 3, 1958

Mark Buselli is Director of Jazz Studies at Ball State University in Indiana.

Buselli's awards include a 2010-11 BSU College of Fine Arts Dean's Creative Arts Award, a Creative Renewal grant from the Indianapolis Arts Counci in 2005, a teacher of the year award in 2004 at Butler University, a Creative Vision award from NUVO in May of 2007, a top ten CD release of 2009 (Dec 09) in JAZZIZ magazine for "An Old Soul," and a top 100 CD of the decade (Jan 10) in Downbeat magazine for the Buselli/Wallarab release of "Basically Baker"

Buselli has over forty arrangements published for big bands, brass ensemble, and piano/trumpet

Hidden Gems

By Brent Laidler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Haba Verde; #5 Shomeda Way; Gemani (Gem-a-nee); Ballad for B; Riffy Business; Somewhere in Central Park; Evening Song; Bop Like; Petite Parasol; Without a Tres.

Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

by Richard J Salvucci
May 27, 2025

If this recording were named “Dave Stryker Plays Bernard Hermann" (or Miklós Rózsa or Elmer Bernstein), well that would be just fine. They were all gifted composers who wrote film scores. The consensus would likely be that a musician like Stryker was hardly wasting his time, but Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies hits the ...

Brent Laidler: Hidden Gems

by Jack Bowers
March 6, 2025

The Hidden Gems alluded to by guitarist Brent Laidler on his third recording as leader comprise unique and seductive melodies and chord changes he uncovered while taking time during the Covid pandemic to skim through and sight-read some 14,000 tunes in 'fake books' and on his laptop computer, most of which never made it past that ...

Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

by Jack Bowers
January 4, 2025

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 ...

Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

By Dave Stryker

Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: In Your Eyes; Cinema Paradiso (main theme); You Only Live Twice; Taxi Driver (main title); Theme from Shaft; Cavatina; Flirtibird; Low Key Lightly; Moonglow; Dreamsville; Edelweiss.

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.

Dippermouth Blues

July 10, 2023

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

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.

Wouldn't Be Here Without You

By Brent Laidler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Keeping It Simple; Sunday Mood; You Ain’t the Bossa Me; A Second Chance; City by the Bay; Foo’s Blues; Walt’s Waltz; One More; Wouldn’t Be Here Without You; Pretty Little Bossa.