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In 2009 members of Owl Studios management purchased the rights to the Indy Jazz Fest from the American Pianists Association and took ownership of the annual festival, transforming it into a non-profit organization and using it as a vehicle to promote jazz music and education in Indianapolis.
In 2010, Owl Studios started the Emerging Jazz Artist Project, giving the opportunity to young jazz artists to have a professionally recorded, distributed, and promoted album under the Owl Studios moniker. The first Emerging Jazz Artist, selected from countless applicants was the Jeff McLaughlin Quartet, whose album Blocks was released on July 12, 2011.
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