Visions of Steveland: Noah Baerman plays Stevie Wonder

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 12:00pm
Smith Reading Room, Olin Library, 252 Church Street

Free and open to the public

Jazz pianist and Director of the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble Noah Baerman presents a program of instrumental interpretations of Stevie Wonder’s “message music” in celebration of his new album, Right Now Volume 4: Visions of Steveland.

Noah Baerman is a jazz pianist, composer, educator, and activist who has recorded sixteen acclaimed albums under his own name and several more as a co-leader of cooperative ensembles including Trio 149, Envisage Collective, and Playdate, earning praise from Downbeat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, the NYC Jazz Record, WNPR’s Jazz Corridor, and the Village Voice. He is the author of ten instructional books published by Alfred Publishing Company and has taught in various capacities at Wesleyan University, where he is the jazz piano instructor and has directed the Jazz Ensemble since 2007. In 2012 he founded Resonant Motion, a non-profit dedicated to the intersection of music and positive change. In recent years, he has been awarded an Artists Respond grant from the CT Office of the Arts and the Arts Advocacy award from the City of Middletown, where July 10, 2020 was declared “Noah Baerman Day” in the city. For more information, visit the Wesleyan Library Collections blog.

Sponsored by the World Music Archives & Music Library.