East Studio Building, JS211
Education
- D.M., Doctor of Music, Indiana University, 1997
- M.M., Master of Music, Indiana University, 1985
- B.M., Bachelor of Music, Indiana University, 1979
Biography
Luke Gillespie is professor of music in jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
An active performer and teacher of jazz and classical piano, Gillespie has toured Argentina, Austria, China, Croatia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Slovenia, and the United States, and won best performances from the Indianapolis Jazz Festival Competition (1994), TheIndianapolis Star (1993), and the Piano Concerto (Copland) Competition at Indiana University (1990).
He has recorded with the Arts Center Jazz Collective, David Baker, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (The Gennett Suite, 2023; Carol of the Bells, 2023; Basically Baker, 2017), James Campbell, Sean Dobbins, Frank Glover, Steve Houghton, Jazz Fables, Sylvia McNair, Rich Perry, John Raymond, Walter Smith III, Dave Stryker, Tierney Sutton, Wayne Wallace, Tom Walsh, Greg Ward, Aebersold’s Play-Along, Vol. 76: “How to Learn Tunes” by David Baker, Footprints (RIAX Records, 2003), Live at the Station (2008) and Third Base Line (Watercourse Records, 2011), Moving Mists (PATOIS Records, 2019), and The Pandemic Sessions (2021).
Gillespie has performed with Alex Acuña, Jamey Aebersold, Eric Alexander, Rahsaan Barber, Ron Blake, Ralph Bowen, Randy Brecker, John Fedchock, Benny Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Bunky Green, Jimmy Heath, Nicole Henry, Robert Hurst, Gene Jackson, Ingrid Jensen, Kelley Johnson, Pat LaBarbera, David Liebman, Marshall McDonald, Larry McKenna, James Moody, Ed Neumeister, Chris Potter, Rufus Reid, Arturo Sandoval, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Jim Snidero, Bennie Wallace, Rodney Whitaker, Pharez Whitted, and Pablo Ziegler.
He has published articles including “How to Listen to Jazz” (DownBeat, 2019) and “Moving Heaven and Earth” (International Piano, 2022), and a book, Stylistic II/V7/I Voicings for Keyboardists (Aebersold, 2000) as well as adapted Aebersold’s Play-Along Volume 1 for Piano (2015). Gillespie has taught jazz camps at Music for All, Shell Lake Arts Center, Interlochen Arts Center, and Indiana University, and gave a mentor session on Diminished Pentatonics in 2024 for the online OPEN STUDIO forum for jazz education.