Noah Baerman presents: BAD EGG and Stankeye Jones and the Vagabond Librarians

Pianist/composer Noah Baerman has released 16 albums under his own name and several more as co-leader of cooperative ensembles including the jazz groups Envisage Collective, Playdate, and Trio 149, and the folk-blues duo Stankeye Jones and the Vagabond Librarians with his wife, visual artist and Wesleyan faculty member Kate Ten Eyck. Highlights from his discography include Patch Kit (illuminating his lifelong challenges with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome alongside bassist Ron Carter and drummer Ben Riley), the Martin Luther King tribute album Soul Force (from which he performed several selections as a guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz), and the concert-length works Know Thyself (the result of a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant) and The Rock and the Redemption. He has directed the Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble since 2007, serves as Wesleyan’s Jazz Piano instructor, and has taught other courses through the Music Department, Graduate Liberal Studies program, Center for Prison Education, and Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life. He is the author of 10 published instructional books, and in 2012 founded Resonant Motion, Inc. (RMI), a nonprofit committed to exploring the intersection of music and positive change. His service through RMI led to his receiving the Middletown Arts Advocacy award, with July 10, 2020 declared “Noah Baerman Day” by the mayor and the Middletown Commission on the Arts.