Jane Jarvis, ballpark organist for the NY Mets for 15 years, dies in NJ at age 94

Jane Jarvis, ballpark organist for NY Mets, dies

NEW YORK — Organist Jane Jarvis, still remembered by some longtime New York Mets fans who can recall her playing songs like “Meet the Mets” during games at Shea Stadium, has died.

Son Brian Jarvis said Sunday that his mother died Jan. 25 at the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home in Englewood, N.J. She was 94.

She was the ballpark organist for the Mets from 1964 to 1979. She was a classically trained musician and jazz pianist.

She had embarked on a parallel career at Muzak Corporation in the late 1960s. Jarvis started as a receptionist and rose to become a company executive responsible for programming. She hired jazz musicians to create soothing background tunes. She retired in 1978.

Jarvis continued playing at Manhattan nightclubs into her 80s.