Jane Jarvis

Jane Nossett Jarvis ( born October 31, 1915 in Vincennes, Indiana, † 25 January 2010 in Englewood, New Jersey) was an American pianist, organist, arranger and composer, who worked in the fields of Muzak and jazz.

Life and work

Jane Jarvis was early on as a prodigy and had as a girl lessons from a professor of Vincennes University. Her family then moved to Gary (Indiana), where Jarvis in 1927, got a job as a pianist at the local radio station WJKS in Gary. They had the opportunity to Ethel Waters, Sophie Tucker and Paul Whiteman's orchestra to accompany. At the age of 13, she was orphaned when their parents died in a traffic accident. She returned to her remaining family to Vincennes back, graduated in 1932 from Lincoln High School and then studied music at various conservatories and universities in Chicago.

After she paused for a while and took care of the education of her two children, she was in 1954 at the television station WTMJ - TV in Milwaukee in a show called Jivin 'with Jarvis as an accompanying pianist and organist worked and played with gas- tier artists like Eddie South, Billy Butterfield and Maxine Sullivan. At this time the baseball club Milwaukee Braves had moved from Boston to Milwaukee and Jarvis was hired as organist at the Milwaukee County Stadium. After eight championships Jarvis left the club and moved to New York City where she worked as a composer and arranger in the Muzak Corporation. Later she was promoted to Vice President and Director for recording and programming.

In addition, it was from 1964 as organist for the New York Mets during their game at Shea Stadium operate; while they played the theme song "Meet the Mets ". About her work for the Mets and Muzak she said in 1984 in an interview with the New York Times:

1978 Jarvis left the Mets and the company Muzak and focused on the jazz piano performance. Then you came into New York night clubs, such as the Zinno 's in Greenwich Village, often joined by bassist Milt Hinton, and was a founding member of the formation Statesmen of Jazz, a group of jazz musicians over 65 years of the American Federation of Jazz Societies was sponsored. She then took some albums for audiophiles and Arbors under his own name, like Jane Jarvis Jams (1995 ), in which Grady Tate, Dan Barrett, Earl May and Bob Haggart participated, and most recently in 1997/98 with musicians such as Jake Hanna, Frank Wess and Benny Powell on Atlantic / Pacific. In addition, Jarvis since the 1960s collaborated with Jay Leonhart, Roy Eldridge, Helen Humes, Ruby Braff, Zoot Sims and Doc Severinsen and wrote over 300 compositions.

Your later years she spent in Cocoa Beach ( Florida), where she was honored in 2003 by the Space Coast Jazz Society for her life's work. There she organized an annual festival held, the Jane Jarvis Jazz Invitation. In 2008, Jane Jarvis and Benny Powell on the All Nite Soul Jazz Festival in New York's St. Peter 's Church honored. She then lived in the 2000s in Manhattan, most recently in Lillian Booth Actors' Home in Englewood, New Jersey.

Disco Graphical Notes

• L.A. Quartet ( Audiophile, 1988)
• Cut Class ( Audiophile, 1990)
• Jane Jarvis Jams ( Arbors Records, 1995)
• Atlantic / Pacific ( Arbors, 1997/98)