Dr. Monika Herzig from Indiana University

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 is the author of David Baker - A
Legacy in Music, published in 2011 by IU Press, Experiencing Chick Corea with Rowman &
Littlefield, 2017, co-editor of Jazz and Gender (Routledge, 2022) and the previous editor of Jazz
Education in Research and Practice (IU Press). Currently she is Professor of Artistic Research
at the Jam Music Lab Private University, Vienna. She is the host of Talking Jazz, a radio
program/ podcast broadcast weekly on WICR and WETF, as well as on podcast services and
youtube.
As a touring jazz artist, she has performed at many prestigious jazz clubs and festivals,
such as the Canaris Mas Jazz Festival, Jazz Tales Festival, Women in Jazz Festival, Indy Jazz
Fest, , the W.C.Handy Festival, to name just a few. Groups under her leadership have toured
the US, Europe, and Japan, opened for acts such as Tower of Power, Sting, the Dixie Dregs,
Yes, and more.
She has released more than a dozen CDs under her leadership on her own ACME
Records as well as Owl Studios, Whaling City Sound, Jazz Urbane, and Savant. Her awards
include a 1994 Down Beat Magazine Award for Best Original Song, a Jazz Journalist
Association Hero 2015 award, as well as grants from the NEA, the Indiana Arts Commission,
MEIEA, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Chamber Music America, Indiana University, among
others. Her project “SHEROES” (Whaling City Sound, Savant) features the world’s leading
female jazz instrumentalists including Leni Stern, Jamie Baum, Jennifer Vincent, Rosa Avila,
Mayra Casales, Reut Regev, Ada Rovatti, and Ingrid Jensen and was featured on NPR’s Here
and Now as well as cited as one of the best releases of 2018 in DownBeat Magazine, placing
#31 on the year-end Jazz Week Charts. Thomas Garner from Garageradio.com writes, “I was
totally awed by the fine musicianship throughout”.
More info and sound samples at www.monikaherzig.com
6:30 pm Small Jazz Band - Harlem Bound
SMALL JAZZ BAND
“La Banda de Jazz de Córdoba”
Conjunto de jazz tradicional que comenzará su actividad allá por fines de 1981 en la ciudad de
Córdoba de la República Argentina, intentando recrear el estilo de los primeros grupos de los años
"20", tales como los de Joe "King" Oliver, Clarence Williams, Louis Armstrong, Sam Morgan, Johnny
Dodds, "Jelly Roll" Morton, y otros no tan conocidos pero no por ello de menor importancia musical.
La Small Jazz Band, está formada por profesores de educación musical que creen en el valor estético y
sentimental de este género, tal vez la expresión popular más relevante e influyente del siglo XX.
Integrantes: Francisco F. Castillo (h), corneta y clarinete. Luis Alasino, trombón y saxo alto. Alejandro
Kras, banjo. Roque Celis, tuba. Javier Machado, batería y washboard.
Algunos de los innumerables shows brindados:
_Jazzología (Centro Cultural Gral. San Martín de Bs. As.) años 1985, 1995, 2001, 2006, y 2016
(concierto homenaje por el 35° aniversario y premiación “Jazzología de Oro”).
_”Jazz en Blanco y Negro” (Teatro del Libertador de Córdoba), 1985
_Festivales internacionales de jazz de La Pampa, Mendoza, Rosario, Bariloche, La Rioja, Río Cuarto
y Santa Fe, entre otros, desde 1986 hasta la fecha.
_Festivales de Jazz de la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional en: Mar del Plata, Bahía Blanca,
Avellaneda, Concepción del Uruguay, Santa Fe, Mendoza, Tucumán, Reconquista, Venado Tuerto
(Sta. Fe), San Rafael (Mendoza), Buenos Aires, Rafaela (Sta. Fe), desde 1999 hasta 2023.
_Festival internacional de jazz de FUSDAI (Córdoba), desde 1993 hasta 2010.
_Festival internacional de jazz de Los Ángeles (Chile), 1995.