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In this Edition:
- Greetings
- 2024 in Review
- Sheroes Videos @The Piano Man
- Talking Jazz Editions
- Upcoming Events
- Shop
| Joni Mitchell's River - a meaningful and touching composition- here performed by the late Janiece Jaffe with my arrangement as recorded on Both Sides of Joni at the Jazz Kitchen March 19, 2021. | |
River
by Joni Mitchell
It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby cry
He tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye
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Dear Friends
Happy Holidays - whichever way you're celebrating, wishing you special moments with friends and family and a week of rest with lots of cookies. And yes, I'm the one with the brown hair - back to the roots!
Indiana friends - on Saturday, Dec 28, 7-10pm at Sara's Soiree in Noblesville, we will present a rare Piano Trio night featuring Cassius Goens III on drums and Peter Kienle on bass. Reservations at https://sarassoiree.com/ - would love to see you!
The research study survey on Perceptions of Jazz Performance will be closed on December 26 - if you haven't done so yet, please follow this link https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/robsexperiments/tests&examples/jazz.html and share your impressions, no musical knowledge needed - and share the link with your networks, thanks for helping!
Jazz Girls Unite - calling all girls between 10-18 years old for a free, fun day of playing in a band with peers, guided by world-class mentors - no jazz experience needed, but lots of confidence and life skills gained!
Saturday, March 8, Vienna, Austria - SIGNUP OPEN HERE
Saturday, March 15, Linz, Austria - signup coming soon
Saturday, April 5, Indiana University, Bloomington - SIGNUP OPEN HERE
Tuesday, April 15, Noblesville High School, IN - signup coming soon
Best Wishes for 2025 - see the year in review and upcoming dates below.
Monika
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2024 Highlights
January - The Premiere of my commissioned choir piece Blood Root with words by Norbert Krapf, performed by the choir of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington on January 21, honoring the memory of John and Julia Lawson - Here is the performance
February - Successful Kickstarter Campaign for All In Good Time, thank you!
March - Jazz Girls Day, Vienna, Jazz Girls Day, Linz, and Skiing!
April - Tour of Spain with the Javier Moreno/ Jamie Baum Quartet
May - Our daughter Jasmin's graduation from Indiana University with a Bachelor in Computer Science
June - Indiana Jazz Exchange in Cologne with a tribute to Wes Montgomery
July - BeebleBrox Reunion Concert at the Indianapolis Zoo and release of a recording with our Alabama version - listen on Streaming Services
August - Sheroes US Release Tour of All In Good Time, thank you DC Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, The Jazz Kitchen, Bop Stop, Caffe Vivace, Merriman's Playhouse, and Erie Jazz Society!
September - First Erasmus+Blended Learning Intensive Week with students from St. Louis College, Rome, Conservatorio Statale die Musica Alfredo Casello, L'Aquilla, Italy, Academy of Music, Dance, and Fine Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and Jam Music Lab University, Vienna - New Standards: Workshops, Concerts, Masterclasses
October - Monika Herzig's Sheroes conquer the world, from Austria, Germany, Madrid, to the Jazzmandu Festival in Kathmandu, and The Piano Man Clubs in New Delhi. Thank you to USArtist International, Austrian Ministry of Culture, Austrian Embassy Madrid, and US Embassy Kathmandu for making our 4-week tour possible. Below are videos from The Piano Man.
November - Beautiful collaboration with Chanda Rule for Vienna Jazz Floor, here are special moments from that evening, a needed distraction from the political turmoil
December - Gathering of European Jazz Experts as we launch the Creative EU Project New Standards for Europe over the next 4 years AND reunited with the family!
2024 was a milestone year in so many ways, the biggest tours, the largest research projects, a big birthday - 2025, bring it on! Would love to hear about your 2024 highlights and wishing you a happy, healthy 2025.
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Sending my gratitude to all the jazz radio programmers around the US who gave the Monika Herzig's Sheroes July 2024 release All In Good Time 2428 spins over the course of 20 weeks and helped us place at #60 in the Jazz Week Year-End Radio Charts
| PC, dedicated to the memory of Wayne Shorter, as performed November 2, 2024 at The Piano Man, New Delhi | Parade of Sadness - as performed November 2, 2024 at The Piano Man, New Delhi | A very special Talking Jazz Live Edition with my colleague Danny Grissett, celebrating Duke Ellington's 125th birth year. I'm hoping to do many more Talking Jazz Live editions in the spirit of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz - once I can find the needed sponsorship! |
Upcoming Events
December 28 Sarah's Soiree, Noblesville, Monika Herzig Trio
January 7/8 Jazz Congress New York
January 8-11 JEN Conference Atlanta
January 18 9:30pm, Chatterbox, Indianapolis, Monika Herzig Acoustic Project featuring Cathy Morris
February 13. Frau Mayer, Vienna with Micky Lee
February 26 - March 2, AEC Conference, Pamplona
March 8, Jazz Girls Day Vienna
March 11, Monika Herzig Trio Session Opener, Loop, Vienna
March 15, Jazz Girls Day Linz
March 25, 17:45 Piano, Frau Mayer, Vienna
April 1, Sheroes Lite, Pangea, New York
April 3, Sheroes Lite, Austrian Culture Center, New York
April 5, Jazz Girls Day, Indiana University
April 8, Sheroes Lite, New Orleans Jazz Museum
April 11, Sheroes Lite, Jazz at Helen's, Columbus, IN
April 15, Jazz Girls Day, Noblesville
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Study: Qualities of Jazz Performance
Please consider participating in a survey on perceptions of jazz performance. Your answers will provide needed data to study audience perceptions of jazz performance qualities. The study will be published in a special issue of the Jazz Research Journal. The benefits of your participation will be the contribution of needed data to understand audience perceptions of jazz performance in order to guide performance practice. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary, risks are minimal as all data is anonymous, and identifiers will not be shared. If you have any questions about this research please contact jazzresearch101@gmail.com
Follow this link, thank you! https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/robsexperiments/tests&examples/jazz.html
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