About

   From Beaverton, Oregon to Longmont, Colorado, writer, author, photographer, videographer, graphic artist, concert producer and performer, and CD producer Jude Hibler has interviewed and/or photographed some of the giants in the jazz world. She published and edited The Jazz Link magazine in San Diego, California from 1988-1992.

   She has written liner notes and has had her photographs used for compact disc recordings; engraved the three books by her business partner in Colorado since 1994, Dale Bruning: The Dale Bruning Jazz Guitar Series: Vol I, Vol II and Vol III; has photographs used in two of Joe Pass’ music books: Joe Pass Improvising Ideas, (out- of-print) which she coauthored, and Joe Pass Note for Note, both published by Mel Bay.

   She was a featured writer and photographer for 20th Century Guitar magazine and Jazzscene of Oregon and has had articles in Just Jazz Guitar magazine. She was a publicist for Concord Jazz records in the early 1990s.

   Jazz historian Leonard Feather asked her to be a contributing writer for his final The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz book, coedited with Ira Gitler, (© 1999, Oxford University Press, New York).

   In 1996, she and her business partner, guitarist,composer, arranger, and educator Dale Bruning, coproduced his first CD on their JLE label entitled The Dale Bruning Quartet: Tomorrow’s Reflections (JLECD-4001).

   Since that time, they produced 14 CDs under Dale’s name. They have a number of concerts available at youtube.com/judehibler. His jazz guitar lessons are also posted there.

Also in 1996, they presented their first Timeless Music of Great Composer Concerts. Mr. Bruning writes arrangements and Ms. Hibler researches, writes, and tells the stories of the composers and the selected songs in between the playing of the songs

   In their 30+ year partnership, they have presented more than three  dozen different concerts in various venues: clubs, churches, Senior Centers, book stores, guitar stores, performing arts centers, and even a barn!

   In 1997, she did the notation and art work for Mr. Bruning’s book: The Dale Bruning Jazz Guitar Series, Volume I: Phrasing and Articulation (© 1997, Jazz Link Enterprises Publishers). In 2010, she did the same thing for The Dale Bruning Jazz Guitar Series, Volume II: Phrasing and Arpeggios (© 2010, Jazz Link Enterprises Publishers) and in 2014, they collaborated on The Dale Bruning Jazz Guitar Series, Volume III: Phrasing: Scales & Intervals.

   She coproduced the first Longmont Jazz Festival in 1997 and has produced or coproduced many other concerts, including a Big Band series in Hollywood, California that featured such bands as Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Gerald Wilson, Bill Holman, and Frankie Capp.

   She produced a concert in 1998 featuring Mr. Bruning and bassist Michael Moore. This concert was recorded and is on the Jazz Link Enterprises label, titled Conference Call.

   Additionally, she worked on Mr. Bruning’s third CD, Live! at Sherman’s Coffee House, with Rich Chiaraluce as the leader and Ken Walker on bass.

Other CD recordings she has assisted in their production, graphic arts, and or story-telling performance include:
Dale Bruning & Bill Frisell: Reunion [JLECD-440072]
Dale Bruning Quartet with Jude Hibler, Narrator: The Timeless Music of Harold Arlen [JLECD-6029]
Dale Bruning Quartet with Jude Hibler, Narrator: The Timeless Music of Harry Warren [JLECD-7938]
Easy Does It! The Music of Charles Eakin – Dale Bruning Quartet
Music of Gershwin, By George! – Dale Bruning Quartet
Classical Connections, Vol I: with Ali Ryerson
Classical Connections, Vol II: with Ali Ryerson

   A native of Beaverton, Oregon, Ms. Hibler attended Portland State College, University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of Colorado in Boulder.

   While publishing and editing The Jazz Link magazine, the publication had subscribers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.

   Some of the people she interviewed and/or photographed include:
Howard Alden, Lucie Arnaz, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Gene Bertoncini, Ed Bickert, Homer Brown, Les Brown, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Dale Bruning, Kenny Burrell, Benny Carter, Jeff Clayton, John Clayton, John Collins, Bob Cooper, ‘Papa’ John Creach, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Herb Ellis, Ron Eschete, Leonard Feather, Pete Fountain, Bill Frisell, Sandy Graham, John Guerin, Benny Golson, Jim Hall, Jeff Hamilton, Dick Hyman, Hank Jones, Barney Kessel, Earl Klugh, Frankie Laine, Harold Land, Peggy Lee, Mundell Lowe, Ginny Mancini, Johnny Mandel, Pat Martino, Bill Mays, Les McCann, Marian McPartland, Carmen McRae, Ron Miles, Red Mitchell, James Moody, Lennie Niehaus, Lou Rawls, Ellyn Rucker, Shorty Rogers, Howard Rumsey, Rob Schneiderman, Bud Shank, Johnny Smith, Carol Sloane, Ralph Sutton, Dr. Billy Taylor, Toots Thielemans, Ed Thigpen, George Van Eps, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, Leroy Vinnegar, Cedar Walton, Gerald Wiggins, Gerald Wilson, Joe Williams, Mike Wofford and Denny Zeitlin.

Her writing and photography have earned her a place in five volumes of the Marquis Who’s Who in the West, in America, of Women, in the World and in Entertainment.

   Mrs. Hibler and her family lived in Longmont, Colorado until 2025. When her dear husband, Jeff, died in 2024 from severe dementia, she and her family moved to Littleton, Colorado.