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Monika Herzig

Born: June 12, 1964

In 1987, the pedagogical institute in Weingarten, Germany awarded a scholarship for a one-year exchange program at the University of Alabama to one of their students, jazz pianist Monika Herzig. Together with her partner and guitarist Peter Kienle, she arrived in the States on a one-way ticket, with one suitcase of belongings and one guitar in August 1988.

Since then she has completed her Doctorate in Music Education with minor fields in Jazz Studies at Indiana University, where she is now a faculty member in Arts Administration. Her book David Baker – A Legacy in Music was released November 2011 on IU Press, and Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener’s Companion on Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.

Both Sides of Joni

By Monika Herzig

Label: ACME Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Help Me; Both Sides Now; I Think I Understand; River; Don't Interrupt the Sorrow; My Old Man; The Hissing of Summer Lawns; Sweet Bird; The Circle Game.

New September Releases - Sisters of Jazz, John Stein, Aaron Diehl & The Knights, Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter, Ivan Lins And More

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 18, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Sisters of Jazz, John Stein, Aaron Diehl & The Knights, Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter, Ivan Lins and Kirsten Agresta Copely, with birthday shoutouts to Gabrielle Stravelli, Alyssa Allgood, Tom Wopat, Greta Matassa, Claire Martin and Lorraine Feather, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear ...

New Releases, Birthday Shoutouts To Monnette Sudler, Irene Higginbotham (Good Morning Heartache), Hazel Scott & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 19, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from from drummer Ken Serio, guitarist Andrea Lisa, vocalists Marina Pacowski and Chloe Jean, with birthday shoutouts to Monnette Sudler, Irene Higginbotham (Good Morning Heartache), Hazel Scott, Daryl Sherman, Jocelyn Gould, Lili Anel, Janiece Jaffe, Deanna Kirk and Erica Lindsey, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you ...

Monika Herzig: Both Sides of Joni with Janiece Jaffe

by Jane Kozhevnikova
June 1, 2023

It is always challenging to create an album based on songs by someone as great as Joni Mitchell. Monika Herzig, pianist and composer, went for this challenge inspired by vocalist Janiece Jaffe. Although they recorded the project together, Jaffe passed away unexpectedly after heart surgery in November 2022. Shocked and devastated by the passing ...

New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 8, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from the JOI (Jazz Outreach Initiative) Jazz Orchestra, Luis Russell and Grace Garland, plus birthday shoutouts to Blossom Dearie, Ma Rainey, Rebecca Martin, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they ...

Monika Herzig

by Lawrence Peryer
April 15, 2023

Today, the Spotlight shines On Monika Herzig, whose career as a jazz pianist and composer spans three decades and dozens of releases. Monika joins us to talk about the release of her reimagined set of Joni Mitchell's music, which she arranged and features vocals interpreted by her late friend, award-winning vocalist Janiece Jaffe.To quote ...

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month With New Releases, Birthday Shoutouts to Pearl Bailey, Sarah Vaughan, Alberta Hunter And More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 10, 2023

This broadcast celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from the Erica Seguine Shon Baker Orchestra, Diego Rivera, the Saturn Quartet, Jeremy Pelt, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and a single from the Lisa Markley Nonet, plus birthday shoutouts to Pearl Bailey, Sarah Vaughan, Alberta Hunter, Tracy Chapman, Ledisi, Jean Fineberg and Norah Jones, among others. Thanks for ...

New Releases, Jazz Aires, Rhymes Of Spring, Juno Winners and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 3, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Ingrid Laubrock, Lucy Yeghiazaryan, Monika Herzig & Janiece Jaffe, plus a special project by Vivienne Aerts supporting Femmes de Virunga, a cacao farm collective of 1500 women in the Congo, with birthday shoutouts to Deanna Witkowski, Aretha Franklin, Meredith d'Ambrosio, Amina Claudine Myers, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Marian McPartland, Mimi Jones ...

Holiday Releases Plus A Celebration of Cab Calloway and More Christmas Capricorns

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 2, 2023

The Christmas broadcast presents holiday releases from Herb Albert and Jessy J as well as more Yuletide music penned by women, with birthday shoutouts to Cab Calloway, Edith Piaf, Sue Maskaleris, Camille Thurman, Chris McNulty, Kerry Politzer, Sean Harkness and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during ...