Denis DiBlasio on Jazz Ed - David Baker's How to Play Bebop

7.1K views · 155 reactions | If you missed it last night, check out this IU Jazz Studies announcment about our friend, collegue and mentor, the late great David N. Baker! | Indiana University Jacobs School of Music | Facebook

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 and Jazz Studies at Indiana University, where she taught for three decades. She