The Jazz Education Network is dedicated to building the jazz arts community by advancing education, promoting performance and developing new audiences.
JEN is committed to representing and cultivating diversity, equity, and inclusion in all areas of its operation including staff, board members, volunteers, presenters, clinicians, performers and audiences. This commitment is present in all programs and decision making.
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Who we are
The Jazz Education Network is a global community that inspires collective improvisation in music, action and word. Our annual gathering fuels the conversation as students, teachers, pros and enthusiasts connect, learn, and jam to contribute to the distinctive art form called jazz.
Connect and Learn
from each other in the world’s most inspiring jazz community.
Embrace Jazz
and its unlimited potential for generations to come.
The Music
Celebrating this great art form and creating more opportunities for jazz to be performed and heard.
JEN’s Annual Conference
Join the biggest gathering of them all. It’ll be the best week of your life—until next year. Inspire and be inspired by the greats, see old friends and make new ones, and leave with a year’s worth of inspiration.
Thank you to our Conference Sponsors
The Jazz Education Network annual conference is made possible by hundreds of volunteers and the sponsors listed below.
Associate Sponsor
Thank you to our 2019 Conference Sponsors
The Jazz Education Network annual conference is made possible by hundreds of volunteers and the sponsors listed below.
Associate Sponsor
Jupiter/Mapex/XO/Sonor
Associate Sponsor
Berklee College of Music
Associate Sponsor
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
Associate Sponsor
University of New Orleans School of the Arts
Associate Sponsor
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation