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Biography of Jane Jarvis

Jane Jarvis was an American jazz pianist, composer, and music executive who achieved public fame as a pioneering baseball stadium organist, first for the Milwaukee Braves (1954–1963) and most notably for the New York Mets at Shea Stadium (1964–1979). A child prodigy who studied at multiple conservatories, she simultaneously rose to become a vice president and director of programming at Muzak, where she produced recordings with jazz greats. She left both corporate and stadium roles in the late 1970s to focus fully on her first love, jazz piano, becoming a fixture in New York clubs, a founding member of the Statesmen of Jazz, and recording acclaimed albums as a leader starting at age 70.