The Jazz Club

Suzan Windnagel has been a "listener" of jazz since an early age having grown up with parents who enjoyed all types of music.....especially jazz, big band and swing. Her late husband was a professional musician and teacher who inspired her to be involved with the Cazadero Music Camp as well as being a co-founding the East Bay Youth Band, both in California. She is now the co-founder of Circle of Friends a small business which offers creative programs for people with memory loss as well as respite, education and support for caregivers. Art and music are core parts of each session.

She enjoys time with family including her grandson, Alex, attending musical events, reading, traveling, and volunteering to make a difference...especially related to social justice issues.

	Judd Danby [Artistic Director and President] Contact Judd Judd is a composer, jazz performer, and music educator. His concert works have been performed throughout the U.S., and he has composed and performed many jazz works with his own ensembles and with the Los Blancos Latin Jazz Band. Judd has been a member of our greater-Lafayette community for eight years, and teaches at the Arts & Communications Academy at Jefferson HS in Lafayette, where he works with students in the areas of music theory, composition, and jazz improvisation. He is also Chair of the Indiana Music Educators Association Composition Competition, serves on the National Association for Music Educators Composition Council, and is a member of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra Music Advisory Board.
	Maher Hasan [Treasurer] Contact Maher (Bio coming soon!)
	Debbie Parisi [Director of Member Services] Contact Debbie (Bio coming soon!)
	Don Seybold [Host and Booking Agent] Contact Don Don worked at Purdue Convocations for 26 years where he created and booked the Jazz Set. He has hosted a jazz program on local radio stations since 1987 and is currently heard on “Inside Jazz” on WBAA-920AM from 9:00 P.M.-midnight on Sundays. He teaches jazz history for Purdue's Visual and Performing Arts Department and gives frequent pre-performance talks for Purdue Convocations jazz concerts.
	Nicole Sturm [Director of Marketing] Contact Nicole Nicole is a Social Media Account Executive at Anchor Mobile Marketing and a Purdue University Alumna, where she was recognized for academic excellence by the National Association of Collegiate Scholars. An accomplished alto saxophonist , while at Purdue Nicole was the recipient of the Leath Memorial Scholarship, the Martin Dodd Jazz Scholarship, and the Purdue University Jazz Festival Outstanding Musician award, and was twice awarded the Lillian and R.B. Stewart Band Scholarship for Outstanding Member of the Year. Throughout her life she has had a consummate passion and love for all things music, and looks forward to extending her lifelong love of music into The Jazz Club and its members.
	Suzan Windnagel [Member Services Coordinator] Contact Suzan Suzan Windnagel has been a "listener" of jazz since an early age having grown up with parents who enjoyed all types of music.....especially jazz, big band and swing. Her late husband was a professional musician and teacher who inspired her to be involved with the Cazadero Music Camp as well as being a co-founding the East Bay Youth Band, both in California. She is now the co-founder of Circle of Friends a small business which offers creative programs for people with memory loss as well as respite, education and support for caregivers. Art and music are core parts of each session. She enjoys time with family including her grandson, Alex, attending musical events, reading, traveling, and volunteering to make a difference...especially related to social justice issues.
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	Lynn Colwell Lynn Colwell has been involved with music performance and education as a bassist and low brass player in Lafayette, IN since 1988. Prior to moving to the area, Lynn was a bandsman in the United States Marine Corps, graduating from the Navy School of Music in Norfolk, VA, and serving in the Fleet Marine Force Pacific Band at Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, HI. Locally, he has performed with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, the Lafayette Citizens Band, the Tony Zamora Jazz Ensemble, the Emporium Dixieland Band, Los Blancos Latin Jazz Band, the InterPlay Quartet, the Judd Danby Quartet, and the Danny Weiss Jazz Ensemble. He is an applied music instructor at Purdue University, teaches in the music programs for the Tippecanoe and Lafayette School Corporations, and maintains a private teaching studio. Lynn also performed with the Danny Weiss Quartet and the InterPlay quartet on the 2009–2010 Jazz Club season.
	Sonya Thomas A native of Minneapolis, Sonya grew up with a deep appreciation for Arts and Culture. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Minnesota and has made Greater Lafayette home since 1995. She’s a graduate of Leadership Lafayette. She served on the board of Wabash Valley Trust for Historic Preservation and later served for nearly a decade on Civic Theatre’s board of directors. Sonya remains active at Civic, where she’s produced numerous plays and headed up various committees. As an artist, she has shown her pastel artwork throughout the region. She enjoys all types of music and has developed a fond appreciation of jazz through her membership in the Jazz Club.
	Todd Wetzel Todd Wetzel is the director of Purdue Convocations, the multidisciplinary arts presenting organization at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) where he presents over 30 performances each season across the performing arts and commercial spectrum. Previously, he served as director of the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts, as co-chair of the Midwest Arts Conference, and as grant panelist for the NEA and the Indiana Arts Commission. He holds an interdisciplinary BA in Music & Business (principal instrument: piano) and an MBA.
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