Windy City Jazz is owned and operated by Ian Tiele, who has been involved with jazz for over 35 years. Originally from Manchester, England, Ian started a jazz society in nearby Bury in the late seventies, which is still going strong. Ian was also the local jazz correspondent for the Bury Times newspaper. After moving to London in 1980, he managed and promoted several bands and ran his own jazz booking and mangement agency. Two such client's were the extremely popular comedy-jazz outfit Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band and Vernon-Dudley Bohay-Nowell (ex-Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band.

Ian moved to the USA in 2002 and became the founder and President of the highly successful Brookfield Jazz Society (BJS), that has put this small Chicago suburb on the jazz map. The BJS has been so successful, that it now stages several live jazz events each month, as well as presenting jazz lectures and movie nights etc. In June 2011, Ian organized the "Kool Kats and Jazzy Hounds Benefit," a 7-hour non-stop jazz charity event that raised money for the Anderson Animal Shelter.

Ian served for over two years on the Brookfield Village Special Events Committee, helping organize such events as the annual 3-day BrookFest and he has organized the music for Brookfield Village's "Jazz in the Park" festival in 2006. Ian has also been the band booker for Brookfield Library's annual  "Taste of Brookfield" since 2008

Ian is also internationally involved in jazz, being the Treasurer and Convention Committee Chair for the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC) since 2010. Ian organized the Association's 2010 Convention in Chicago and their 2011 one in Manchester, England.

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