Jane Jarvis Transcriptions

Birth name: Jane Jarvis or Louella Jane Nossette
Born: October 31, 1915, Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.
Died: January 25, 2010 (aged 94), Englewood, New Jersey

Jane Jarvis was an American jazz pianist. She was also known for her work as a composer, baseball stadium organist and music industry executive. Jarvis was born in Vincennes, Indiana, to Charles and Luella Nossette. She was recognized as a piano prodigy at the age of five and she studied under a Vincennes University professor as a young girl. Her family moved to Gary, Indiana soon afterward, and Jarvis was hired to play the piano at radio station WJKS in Gary in 1927. She was orphaned at 13 when her parents died in a train-auto wreck and returned to Vincennes, graduating from high school in 1932. She continued her studies at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, Loyola University Chicago and DePauw University.