JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK

Mapping the Scene: Creative Ecosystems in Post-Secondary Jazz Education w/ Justin Hunter & Jake Hertzog

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This presentation will focus on the institutional environment of collegiate jazz programs – the creative ecosystems in which jazz programs exist inside colleges and universities. The study mapped the creative ecosystems of jazz-degree-granting-institutions to better understand internal factors for jazz programs’ success and while offering a novel method for future research.

Plus a Q & A with the live audience.

A presentation from the Jazz Education Research and Practice Journal, a publication of the Jazz Education Network.

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ABOUT JUSTIN HUNTER

Justin R. Hunter is an ethnomusicologist and educator at the University of Arkansas. He received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and has an active research agenda on American music traditions including folk and jazz education.

ABOUT JAKE HERTZOG

Dr. Jake Hertzog is an award-winning guitarist, composer, songwriter, and educator. He has released nine albums ranging from jazz to rock, to classical, and performed with luminaries from the jazz and rock worlds. Hertzog’s academic research focuses on higher music education and music ecosystems.

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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.