SBO+: I recently looked at the schedule for the Jazz Education Network (JEN) convention, to be held in New Orleans at the beginning of the New Year. I was absolutely blown away with the quality and quantity of the offerings. There are jazz instrumental groups from middle schools, high schools, universities, and the highest level of the pro ranks. The range of clinic offerings is equally impressive. Here’s a list of all the offerings. If you are a teacher or performer of vocal or instrumental jazz, you must add this event to your bucket list.
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Highline Vocal Jazz
Rudresh Mahanthappa : Bird Calls
Carmen Bradford with the Univ of No. Colorado Compass Jazz Orchestra
New Orleans Nightcrawlers
Thursday, January 4, 2024
How to Practice Efficiently – The Melodic Way – For Drummers
JJE Masterclass: Guitar
MOJO (MiraCosta Oceanside Jazz Orchestra) Performance
University of Illinois Jazz Trombone Ensemble
Anderson HS Jazz 1
Oklahoma Youth Jazz Ensemble
Temple HS Wildcat Jazz Combo
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Research-Based Approaches to Assessing Improvisation
Charles Pillow Large Ensemble
JJE Masterclass: Trumpet
Liberty High School – Voltage Jazz Choir
Take Excellent Care – How to Maximize Vitality, Productivity and Creativity Through Smart Health and Fitness Practices
The Influence of Gospel Music on Jazz Pedagogy
Fairview HS Age of Guinevere
Hamilton All Star Jazz Band
Temple HS Blues
University North Carolina at Pembroke Jazz Combo I
Jazz Counts: Measuring the Jazz Faculty Gender Gap in Higher Education
JJE Masterclass: Trombone
Los Alamitos High School Jazz 1
Rick Margitza and the New Orleans All Stars
The Bop Shop: Teaching Jazz Performance Through Aural Models
Jazz Girls Day – The Results
If You Can Play It, Can You Sing It? Investigating Relationships Between Melodic Pattern Singing and Instrumental Jazz Improvisation Achievement
A Conversation: The Donald M. Meade Legacy Founders Award
First Take (from the School for Music Vocations)
Hot House West Swing Orchestra
The Rite of Spring as a Source for Jazz Composition and Arranging
Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra Jazz Combo
Clackamas Community College Jazz Ensemble
High School Excalibur
School of the Arts Ashley Street Jazz Band
The Brazilian Jazz Style of Edu Ribeiro
Three of a Kind – Interviews with New Orleans Creole Musicians
Bonegasm with John Fedchock, Jennifer Wharton
Jazz House Big Band
Rehearsal Techniques with Jeff Hamilton and the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Jazz Band
Utilizing the Estill Voice Method for Healthy Vocal Jazz Pedagogy
Freedom Within a Framework: Strategies for the Teaching of Jazz Improvisation in Beginning School Ensembles
Arkansas State University Jazztet
Hilton Head Christian Academy Eagles Jazz Band
Lavilla School of the Arts Davis Street Jazz Band
Southwestern Community College Audio Radiance
Jazz Improvisation Pedagogy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Beginning Jazz Improvisation Learning Environment for Middle School Instrumentalists
JAZZmeetsPOETRY: A Tribute to Buckshot LeFonque & Influencing Jazz
Solo Jazz Piano, an historical and educational approach
The Rodger Fox Big Band PLAYS New Zealand
African American Jazz Caucus
(h)EAR Training for the Stage: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony. Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey
Dave Stryker Organ Trio with Bob Mintzer
Do-Re-Mi-s of Booking, Touring, and Marketing for Independent Artists
Singing with Freedom: Melodic Interpretation and Improvisation Go Hand in Hand
UNLV Jazz Ensemble I
Clackamas Community College Mainstream
Green Canyon Green Notes
Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Jazz Combo II
San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts Jazz Ensemble
A Comparison of Michael Brecker Solos on Rhythm Changes
Archive Grooves: A Study of Yusef Lateef’s Manuscript Works for Large Jazz Ensemble
Blues/Jazz Theory: A Linguistic Approach to Improvisation
Charlie Byrd: Latin American Jazz Ambassador and Cold War Special Agent
Conduction as an Introduction: Utilizing the strategies and concepts of Lawrence “Butch” Morris as an entry point for improvisation
Discussing the Present in a Historical Context: the Challenge of “Significance” in Writing About Contemporary Jazz in a History/Appreciation Textbook
Duet to Big Band: Examining Mary Lou Williams’ arranging and orchestration techniques on her composition, “Scorpio”
Generating a Sustainable Income: How are Jazz Musicians Doing It?
Innovation and Tradition: Exploring New Fields of Vocal Jazz
Marilyn Mazur
Microrhythm and Articulation in Count Basie’s Recordings
Presentation on Voice Leading Models in Jazz Analysis and Improvisation Pedagogy
The Effects of Visuospatial Musical Input Manipulation on Harmonic Accuracy, Achievement, and Self-Efficacy in Beginning-Level Jazz Improvisers
The Jazz Compositions of Dee Barton
The Signature Vocabulary of Dizzy Gillespie: A Starting Point
This is your brain on improvisation: Neural signatures of the flow state
Vocalists as Gendered Category in Jazz Writing
Wardell Gray’s Synergetic Compositional & Improvisational Vocabulary
You Punks Can’t Play This! Situating Ferd Morton the Composer alongside Jelly Roll the Improviser within King Porter Stomp
Brasuka – Brazilian Jazz Fusion Band
The Four Corners of Jazz Improvisation
Fairview HS Jazz Band 1
Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Jazz Combo I
Sam Houston State University Jazz Ensemble
The NYU Wayne Shorter Ensemble
SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Big Band
Last Call Vocal Jazz
MIke Tomaro Big Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Friday, January 5, 2024
A Study of the Lives and Careers of Six Black Female Instrumentalists of the 1920s-1960s
Expression, Ease and Intention: Strategies on the When, How and WHY of Choosing a New Saxophone
Finding and Developing Your Personal Voice
JazzArts Academy All-Stars Youth Ensemble featuring Ashlin Parker
Prairie Grove Junior High Jazz Band 1
Georgetown Day School Minor 9
Lone Peak High School Advanced Jazz Band
Long Beach City College Lyrical Workers
Mott Middle College HS Steelheads Percussion Ensemble & Steel Band
A Conversation: 2024 JEN Award Recipients
AAJC/HBCU Spotlight: North Carolina Central Univ Jazz Ensemble
Inside the Organ Trio
Mason Jazz Vocal Ensemble
Pass It On: New Orleans Polyphony by Preservation Hall Foundation
American Fork High School Intermediate Jazz
Downey HS Jazz Band 2
Folsom High School Jazz Choir
Georgetown Day School Milky Nomads
Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Jazz Ensemble 1
Celebrating Bird
Developing The Instrument, The Style, and The Story: A Soul Ingredients approach to Voice Training
Jazz Notation: A Panel Discussion
American Fork High School Advanced Jazz Band
Day School Stinkbug
Osceola County School for the Arts Jazz Combo I
Darmon Meader Quartet
Drumset Notation: How to create an effective big band or small group part
How to develop and sustain a 4 plus decade career as a jazz ensemble.
Making a High-Production Recording on a No-Frills Budget
The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra with special guests Roxy Coss, John Fedchock and Sean Jones.
Brian Lynch And The Stamps Jazz Quintet
Caliente featuring 4 time Grammy Winner Oscar Hernandez, 2 Time Grammy Winner Ignacio Berroa and trumpet legend Ray Vega
JJE Masterclass: Saxophone
The Independent Musician
Georgetown Day School Wilt Chamberlain Sextet
Lone Peak High School Honors Jazz Band
Southwestern Community College First Take
Temple HS Highlighters
Extra Rhythmic Gears: An Analysis of How Chris Potter and Jerry Bergonzi Use Metric Modulations When Improvising
Jazz Is Not a Language: Critical Thinking vs. Imitative Learning in Jazz Education.
Teach Any Band To Swing – Peter Erskine
Western Michigan University Gold Company
Downey HS EPIC Jazz Choir
Folsom High School Jazz Band A
Milton Academy Jazz D
Park School of Altimore Jazz Collective
Life in Poetry and Music
The Bobby Broom Keyed Up Quartet
University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Ensemble 1 Performance Application
Calhoun Community College Show Band
Century MS Comet Jazz Ensemble I
East HS Angelaires
Milton Academy Jazz C
All You Need Is One Note: How Limitations Can Inspire Creativity
Comprehensive Method For The Improvising Trumpeter
Great Ladies of Jazz and Blues
The TUTELAGE Tips for Connected Music Making
Preservation Hall Legacy Band
Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra
The Navy Commodores
Säje
Saturday, January 6, 2024
JJE Masterclass: Drum Set
JJE Masterclass: Vocal
Popped: Reimaging Pop Songs as Jazz Repertoire
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Student Ensemble
Solo Guitar: Performance, Arranging and Accompaniment
Instrumental New Music Big Band Reading Session
Los Alamitos HS Jazz 2
Northview High School Jazz Ensemble
Southwestern Community College Townline Septet
Celebration of New Orlean’s Trumpet Masters with Loyola University Jazz Ensemble featuring Leroy Jones, Wendell Brunious, and Jamil Sharif.
Howard University Faculty Jazz Ensemble with Cyrus Chestnut
Using Open Broadcaster Software for multi-view and multi-cam online jazz lessons
DeLand HS Jazz Ensemble 1
Los Alamitos HS Jazz 1
Milton Academy Jazz B
Vocal New Music Large Ensemble Reading Session
Andrea Calderwood Large Ensemble
Centering Women Composers in The Jazz Canon with Beginning Improvisation Students
The Big Band Living Legacy Project Project featuring Bob Mintzer, Terell Stafford, and Wycliffe Gordon
Writing for Little Big Band
Friends U. Concert Jazz Band
Milton Academy Jazz A
JJE Masterclass: Bass
Sisters in Jazz
University of North Texas TWO O’Clock Lab Band
Women as Leaders in Jazz: Advocating for access, equity, and community
Bass Extremes, Victor Wooten & Steve Bailey
JJE Masterclass: Piano
Laila Biali
Diaz Music Institute Ensemble
Friends University Jazz Vocal Ensemble
Next Generation Jazz Band of New Orleans
Young Composer Showcase
Bria Skonberg + New Orleans All Stars
Fifty is Nifty – 50 Tips from 50 years of teaching jazz
Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra
Self Accompany Techniques for the Contemporary Singer!
Century MS Knight Comets
Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation TNT
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Student Ensemble
San Marcos High School Studio Jazz
Women in Jazz Jam Session/Meet ‘n Greet
North Carolina Central University VOCAL Jazz Ensemble
Tom “Bones” Malone
Without Rules, The Bass Lines of Ray Brown and Paul Chambers
JazzArts Charlotte All-Stars
Lebanon Valley College Jazz Combo
Florida A&M University Jazz Ensemble
Interplay: Empowering singers and instrumentalists to collaborate with confidence and trust
Latin Jazz: A Rhythm Section Approach To Five Common Latin American Styles
Rachel T. Latin Jazz Project
Straight from the Source: Reuniting history, theory, and culture in the teaching and learning of jazz improvisation
Chris Oatts Quintet with Terell Stafford
The Yellowjackets, Grammy winning quartet, now in it’s 43rd year.
John Daversa Big Band
