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Scott Routenberg
@scottroutenberg.bsky.social
Award-Winning Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator | Jazz Piano Professor | Symphonic Jazz, Nu Jazz, Pops, Film Music, Game Music | Scott Routenberg Trio | John Lennon Songwriting Contest Song of the Year
www.scottroutenberg.com
The Northern Lights from Muncie Indiana tonight! #northernlights
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Funky piano solo? Yes
#jazzsky #funk #piano
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Tonight’s gig at the Jazz Kitchen for the Indy Trumpet Summit with my trio backing regional powerhouses Joey Tartell, Scott Belck, Chad McCullough, and Mark Buselli. 4 note trumpet harmony with bass trumpet and lots of piano solos! #jazzsky
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
On February 7th 2026 multiple Grammy winner Howard Levy will premiere his Eastern European Harmonica and Piano Concerto for Single Soloist with Sinfonia Gulf Coast. I engraved and co-orchestrated the mammoth 30-minute concerto from Levy’s handwritten score using Dorico. #jazzsky #classicalsky
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
November 9th at The Jazz Kitchen my trio will be playing at the Indy Trumpet Summit with Mark Buselli, Joey Tartell, Scott Belck, and Chad McCullough. #jazzsky #jazzmusic
October 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Last night’s Oscar Peterson tribute show with my trio at Merrimans Playhouse in South Bend was swinging! We also played 6 Oscar originals that are lesser known gems showing a different side of the master. #jazzsky #scottroutenbergtrio #OscarPeterson
October 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This Saturday! #jazzsky
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Anyone remember Dynamo’s stalker from the original Running Man?
October 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Patrick Bartley brought the house down tonight with our student jazz band, “one of the best he’s played with in the country!” And yes, that’s a Pokémon on his sax.
#jazzsky #vgm
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Some pictures from last week’s sold out show at The Cabaret with Postmodern Jukebox’ Gunhild Carling for Indy Jazz Fest 2025. Sporting my retro attire for the occasion. #jazzsky #indyjazzfest #jazzpiano #retro
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Gonzalo Rubalcaba and his trio tonight—absolute virtuosic insanity
#jazzsky
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
After the amazing sold out show last night at The Cabaret playing with the world famous Gunhild Carling! Her larger than life trombone, trumpet, recorder, and bagpipe solos make the world a better place. #IndyJazzFest #PostmodernJukebox #jazzsky @gunhildcarling.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I’ll be playing September 17th at Indy Jazz Fest 2025 Sunset Series on a sold out show at The Cabaret in Indy with the world famous Gunhild Carling, Sweden’s “Queen of Swing!” #gunhildcarling #jazzsky #indyjazzfest #jazzpiano
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Now I am become first place in online Knockout Tour, destroyer of Mario Kart World #nintendo #switch2 #mariokartworld #knockouttour
August 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This summer my film scoring students had premiers of their short film scores at the Indy Shorts International Film Festival as part of Ball State University's Radiance Cinema program, an interdepartmental collaborative project. #filmmusic #indyshorts #filmfestival #filmcomposer #academicsky
August 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Wycliffe Gordon brought the house down. Last night’s concert was a masterclass in jazz. Backed by an incredible band…the room was electric. The solos were jaw-dropping.”
—Wycliffe Gordon and Friends, Lexington, KY; Scott Routenberg, piano
#jazzsky #jazz #piano
July 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
July 26th I’ll be playing with jazz trombone master Wycliffe Gordon for a private concert in Lexington, Kentucky—“Wycliffe Gordon and Friends.” Featuring Ron Jones on alto sax, Jeremy Allen on bass, and the Kenny Phelps on drums.
#jazzsky
July 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
From my recent gig for the Louisville Jazz Society Signature Series—photo by Jeffery Parish
#jazzsky #piano
July 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
After the show last night for the Louisville Jazz Society Signature Series with Ron Jones on alto sax, Mike Sharfe on bass and Terry O’ Mahoney on drums. #jazzsky
June 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Tonight’s gig in Louisville with the Ron Jones Quartet was swinging! Sponsored by the Louisville Jazz Society and a full house! #jazzsky
June 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Playing with the Ron Jones Quartet at Eagle Creek Beach Summer Jazz Series in Indy July 9th 6:30-8pm with heavyweights Jeremy Allen on bass and Kenny Phelps on drums!
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My Father’s Day surprise: finding my dad’s lost record of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue that he bought in 1959 and listening together on my new digital record player. Also the first time my kids got to hear a record. It was well preserved with minimal noise. #fathersday #jazzsky #milesdavis
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Excited for October 11th, when my jazz piano trio will present an Oscar Peterson Tribute Concert at Merrimans' Playhouse in South Bend, Indiana to celebrate Oscar’s centennial this year. It will include Oscar’s catchy originals and his arrangements of standards. #jazzsky #OscarPeterson #jazzpiano
June 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Playing piano this evening in a jazz trio with Mark Buselli on trumpet and Michael Santos on bass for the David Owsley Museum of Art’s “Art in Bloom” event in Muncie.
#jazzsky
May 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
An interesting recording session yesterday in Sursa Performance Hall with my jazz colleagues at BSU for an experimental audio engineering project TBA.
#jazzsky #audio #mics
May 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM