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JEN Partners with TMF for Travel & Merch!

 

The Jazz Education Network (JEN) is thrilled to announce a new multi-year partnership with TMF – Travel, Merchandise, Festivals, launching a new era of convenience and style for our members and conference attendees! Our goal is to ensure a smooth, stress-free, and memorable experience so you can make the most of your time at the conference.

Through this collaboration, TMF will serve as an official travel partner and exclusive merchandising provider for the annual JEN Conference and beyond. Best of all, a share of all sales and travel bookings directly supports JEN!

 

 

Highlights of our partnership include:

  • A brand-new JEN webstore launching September 1, 2025, featuring exclusive apparel and gear.

  • Custom merchandise for JEN members, schools, and performing ensembles.

  • On-site merchandise sales and personalization at the JEN Conference.

  • Group travel booking options for schools and attendees—simplifying your conference experience. The TMF team is excited to support your conference journey every step of the way including coordinating all aspects of your travel including:

    • Airfare

    • Ground transportation

    • Official conference hotel accommodations

    • Meals

    • Excursions and activities including the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Mardi Gras World with mask making, Creole Queen, Haunted History Tour, and many more.

Explore more at jazzednet.org/tmf and connecttmf.net and stay tuned as we roll out new merchandise and travel options designed with our vibrant jazz community in mind!

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.