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Jerry Frank is an award-winning composer, producer, pianist, and arranger of music from jazz to symphonic for broadcast advertising, film, and multi-media.
The Jerry Frank Trio was a fixture of the Seattle music scene for years, appearing with his trio and as a soloist in Seattle's finest establishments, such as the Westin Hotel, the Seattle Hilton, the Sorrento Hotel and others. Most recently the trio played at the Columbia Tower Club (where Jerry was the music director) for 14 years, appearing 5 nights a week there from it's opening in 1986 to 2000. From 1982 to 1986, Jerry performed nightly at the Four Seasons Olympic, both with his trio and as a soloist. He was the Nordstrom pianist at the Alderwood Mall store from 2003 to 2008.
Just this month he composed and produced music for Coca-Cola and Adidas for the 2008 Beijing Olympics for their on-sight pavilions. He has produced music for NBC, the Arts & Entertainment Network, PBS, and the Discovery Channel. In the TV series, Rediscovering America, his score for The Alcan Highway won a 1996 Golden Cine Award. Jerry also wrote Over America and the 1998 series, The Art of Magic for PBS. As composer for NBC sports, he wrote TV promos for the Olympic Games in 1988; Major League Baseball Game of the Week 1986-1989; League Championship Series 1987; the World Series 1988, and other events. The Olympic Games spot won a national Emmy, and in 1987 his Major League Baseball NBC Game of the Week theme won another national Emmy.
He wrote the score to Boeing in the 20th Century for The Boeing Company, a ninety-minute documentary of The Boeing Company's official history broadcast on PBS. He has written the music for 49 shows for the popular travel series, Rick Steves' Europe, seen nationally on over 200 PBS stations. He also wrote the score to the World War II documentary, The Rohna Disaster, which aired in 2002 on the History Channel's History's Mysteries TV series. He also was the original Nordstrom pianist, recording 300 songs through the Muzak Corporation played in all the Nordstrom stores nationwide. Since 1992 Jerry has been The Seattle Mariners' organist, (segments pre-taped).