JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK

2015 March
President’s Letter

PresidentS' letters

Dear Friends,

You know me as a co-founder and past president of Jazz Education Network but I also oversee the Outreach program and JAZZ2U grants with Mike Vax and Phil Dunlap. I want to update our members about the wonderful happenings in these JEN initiatives! President Bob Sinicrope chose the 2015 conference theme in San Diego to be “Outreach: Sharing the Gift of Jazz.” Thanks, Bob, for spotlighting JEN’s Outreach program and asking me to share. I am glad you are busy prepping for your student’s tour to South Africa!

OUTREACH

Since the JEN Outreach program’s inception in 2010 at the Inaugural Conference in St. Louis, JEN art­ists and clinicians have reached more than 12,000 students and community members! At each conference, JEN partners with the local community to bring conference talent to new audiences. We work with a local jazz educator coordinator to schedule conference musicians to perform at the various schools/ sites during the conference, free of charge. Special Thanks to our local coordinators for the San Diego Unified School District this year, Mark Nicholson and Marc Dwyer who organized many concerts and clinics, and to the many JEN musicians who gave of their time and talents to this initiative, especially Mike Vax and Brad Goode who spent almost all day with lucky students! Next year in Louisville, Diane Downs and Jerry Tolson will be scheduling the Outreach activities. Congrats to Diane Downs’ Louisville Leopards for their Led Zepplin video going viral this week! Over a million hits and rated #1 video of the week by Today Show!

APPLY for A JAZZ2U GRANT for JAM and/or International Jazz Day!

Year round benefits for JEN members! Want to bring in a jazz artist/clinician for April Jazz Appreciation Month or International Jazz Day (IJD)? With the assistance of a total of $40,000 in grants from the Herb Alpert Foundation, JEN has extended the Outreach program to a year round basis! Close to 10,000 students/adults experienced JAZZ2U in the past two years! JEN members (teachers or artists) can apply for a $300 grant to have a clinic, concert or jazz informance at their school or community center! Simply click here to apply www.JazzEdNet.org . It is a short app with a quick turnaround and we especially are looking for JAM and IJD (April 30) events!

TAKE 5! 

On International Jazz Day, April 30, we are encouraging ALL teachers, especially non-jazz specialists, to TAKE 5 minutes at the beginning or end of class all day long to listen, talk, discuss, play jazz! Can you help spread the word in your school? Wouldn’t it be great to have the teachers of History, Math, English, etc. taking 5 minutes for Jazz? And let’s encourage the orchestra, guitar and keyboard class, and elementary music teachers to Take 5 and even offer to help them by giving them recordings and information.

WANT TO PERFORM AT JEN 2016 in LOUISVILLE?

Apply NOW to be considered for a performance or clinic spot at JEN ’16. Deadline is March 31st.

NOMINATE A MUSIC EDUCATOR!

To bring attention to the wonderful work of music educators the Grammy’s are encouraging self and public nominations until March 31, 2015 at grammymusicteacher.com. I was happy to serve on the semi-finalist selection panel and we observed a variety of fine teachers elementary through high school and several college. High school teachers, please encourage your talented music students to audition for the Grammy Jazz and Vocal Jazz Ensembles.

Thanks to all of you for your ongoing support of JEN! Whether it is in the form of donations, volunteerism, serving on committees or the board, attending the annual conference or paying your dues…we wouldn’t be here without YOU!

Yours in jazz,
Mary Jo Papich

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JEN is committed to representing and cultivating diversity, equity, inclusion, and access 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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charlotte lang

Swiss/Dutch saxophonist Charlotte Lang was born in 1996 in Basel and studied the bachelor and master program at the JAZZCAMPUS Basel under the guidance of Domenic Landolf and Daniel Blanc. She is currently studying the Master of Music in Global Jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston under the artistic direction of Danilo Pérez. In addition she is part of Terri Lyne Carrington’s Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.

 

From 2015 to 2018, Charlotte she was a member of the Swiss National Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Christian Muthspiel. Since 2020, she became a member of the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra (Bundesjazzorchester Deutschland), under the direction of Niels Klein and Ansgar Striepens. She also plays is the Austrian FJO (Frauen Jazz Orchester→Women Jazz Orchestra of Austria).

 

In 2021, Charlotte founded her own Quintet the „Charlotte Lang Group“, for what she is composing, arranging and booking. In the fall 2023, her first album will be recorded and hopefully released by a renowned label.

 

Charlotte plays in the “Swiss Jazz Orchestra” and the “Zurich Jazz Orchestra”, the two professional Big Bands of Switzerland.

Charlotte recently got the unique opportunity to write a monthly blog for the Swiss Jazz & Blues Magazine called JAZZTIME, to tell readers about her time at abroad and specifically her time at Berklee. Her graduate program lasts only until the summer of 2023. She hopes to stay in the United States to enlarge her network and build her musical career.