Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!About the DirectorBrent Wallarab, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, has a career spanning nearly five decades. The Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, founded in 1994 with trumpeter and educator Mark Buselli, held a 12-plus-year weekly residency at Indianapolis' famed Jazz Kitchen and has produced nine albums, including 2023's award-winning album The Gennett Suite. Since 2004, Wallarab has been arranger for the American Pianists Association, writing commissions in collaboration with pianists Emmet Cohen, Kenny Banks Jr., Sullivan Fortner, Isaiah J. Thomas, Paul Cornish, Aaron Diehl, Dan Tepfer, and many others. In 2025, Wallarab was arranger, conductor, and producer of Stryker with Strings – Goes to the Movies with guitarist Dave Stryker. The album remained in the top five of the jazz charts for 14 weeks. Wallarab was musical director and arranger for the 2024 Emmy Award winning PBS special Wes Montgomery at 100 and was nominated for an Emmy for the 2017 PBS production of his work The Gennett Suite. Wallarab is The David N. Baker Professor of Music in Jazz Studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He was inducted into the Indianapolis Jazz Hall of Fame in 2017 and is an active member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards). Meeting URL: