Charts - Jazz Education Network

Member Benefit

2020 Free Charts

A new chart will be released and available every two months.

Eligible members of the Jazz Education Network are invited to download and use any of these great charts from some of the very best jazz composers of our time!

March/April Featured Charts

New Orleans Hop Scop Blues (Vocal)

arr. Kathleen Hollingsworth

Performed by the Sallie B. Howard Vocal Jazz Ensemble directed by Manuel Martinez.

Download "New Orleans Hop Scop Blues"

After Charlie (Adv. Big Band)

by Greg Yasinitsky

Performed by the 2020 JEN All Star Big Band and featuring solos by Tia Fuller, Sean Jones, Roxy Coss, Ellen Rowe, & Bob Breithaupt.

Download "After Charlie"

March/April

Featured Composer

Kathleen Hollingsworth

Portland-based musician, Kathleen Hollingsworth has been performing and writing for most of her life. A childhood steeped in singing led her to study piano and composition. She is now highly active in the northwest as a choral educator, adjudicator, director and leads the band, Mad Love.

Kathleen is the recipient of a Downbeat Award and is a commissioned writer for the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and the Jazz Education Network. She is professional vocalist for Oregon Catholic Press and Resonance Ensemble and is the Founder/Director of the Music Performance and Technology degree at Clackamas Community College in Portland, OR. Kathleen has worked with musical giants such as Danilo Perez, Fareed Haque, Phil Ma/son, Mar\n Bejerano, Terence Blanchard, Rhiannon, Billy Mar\n and John Medeski.

Featured Composer

GREG YASINITSKY

Greg Yasinitsky, a former JEN Board Member and winner of the American Prize in Composition, has an international reputation as a composer, arranger and saxophonist. He has over 210 musical works published which are performed in forty countries around the world. His recent CD, YAZZ Band, has received excellent reviews and is receiving significant, national radio play. As a saxophonist, Greg has performed with many jazz luminaries, everyone from Sean Jones and Jeff Coffin to Sarah Vaughan and Lionel Hampton. Greg is a Regents Professor at Washington State University.

“I was honored to compose JEN-TEN for big band in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Jazz Education Network. The piece is dedicated to the founders of JEN, Mary Jo Papich and Dr. Lou Fischer. JEN-TEN is an uptempo swinger with a prominent bass line and solo—in honor of bassist Dr. Lou—additional solos for tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet and drums and a roaring shout chorus. The premiere was presented by the JEN All Stars Big Band at the 2019 JEN Conference in Reno featuring soloists Bob Sinicrope, bass (past President); Roxy Coss, tenor saxophone (JEN Board); Francisco Torres, trombone (JEN Board); Sean Jones (President Elect); and Bob Breithaupt, drums (JEN Board); performing with Julius Tolentino (JEN Board), Caleb Chapman (Past President), Jeff Coffin and Claire Daly, saxophones; Liesl Whitaker, Pharez Whitted (JEN Board), Todd Stoll (President) and Scott Belk, trumpets; Jay Ashby, Tony Baker and Ashley Shabankareh (JEN Board), trombones; and Monika Herzig (Past Board Member), piano.” –GWY

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JENeral Individual Membership ($8 monthly or $96 annually)

JEN Collegiate or Society Chapter Organizer ($96 annually)

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