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  • Thursday, January 8, 2026
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CST
    Breaking Free from Chronology: A Thematic Approach to Teaching Jazz History
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CST
    Central Washington University Jazz Band I w/Rex Richardson
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CST
    Making Good Choices: Selecting the Correct Repertoire for Your Beginning to Intermediate Jazz Band
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CST
    Memphis Jazz Workshop
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CST
    The Role of the Guitar in the Jazz Band: Strengthening Your Rhythm Section Instruction
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Excelsior Band Preservation! Inc Jazz Studio
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Kirkwood CC Jazz Ensemble
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Sci High Jazz Band
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    U. No. Carolina Pembroke Jazz Combo I
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    JEN Registration Open
  • 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM CST
    University of Louisville Jazz Faculty and Symphony Orchestra
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CST
    A Prescription for Success. Factors Determining Jazz Ensemble Excellence
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CST
    Reimagining String Education: A Hybrid Approach for Fostering Creativity
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CST
    Sound Invention from Plano East Senior High School
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CST
    The Implementation of Contemporary Gospel Organ and Keyboard Techniques in Jazz Piano Improvisation, Accompaniment and Composition
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Marshall University Jazz Combo I
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Morehead State University Jazz Combo
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Temple HS Blues
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Urban School of San Francisco Jazz Band
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CST
    Cats in a Dog Park - How Sitting In is Essential to Running with the Jazz Pack
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CST
    Coaching a Young Collegiate Rhythm Section with the University of Tennessee Jazz Faculty
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CST
    Exploring the New Vocal Jazz Performance Pedagogy Text: Sing Vocal Jazz, Teach Vocal Jazz
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CST
    Hinsdale Middle School Jazz Ensemble
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CST
    In Motion Quartet
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CST
    Planting Seeds: Cultivating a Healthy Jazz Program
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CST
    A Ride Cymbal Is All You Need: A Demonstration & Discussion on the Most Important Piece of the Jazz Drumset
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CST
    Altissimo Techniques for Saxophone
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CST
    Annie Booth Big Band
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CST
    Griots Corner: Memoirs of the Griot and their Influences on Jazz: Past, Present and Future
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CST
    Jamie Shew Quartet
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Columbia Basin College Jazz Combo
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    DMI Workshop Ensemble
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Kirkwood CC Jazz Transit
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Old Quarry MS Jazz 1
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CST
    Do Whatcha Wanna…Modern Brass Band Repertoire
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CST
    Harmonic Horizons
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CST
    John Sturino & BLOW GLOBE
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CST
    NAMM Careers in Music
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CST
    The World Leaders
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CST
    Vocal Improvisation and Phrasing in Odd Meters.
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Austin HS Jazz Ensemble
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Moises Vela MS Jazz I
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Tiffin Univ. Up in the Air Vocal Ensemble
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    U. Alabama Birmingham Jazz Combo
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CST
    How Harmony Can Characterize a Melody
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CST
    Jazz Piano for Non-Pianists
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CST
    KCKCC Blue Devil Funk Band w/Tom Bones Malone, Brett Jackson, Chris Hazelton
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CST
    Loyola University New Orleans Jazz Ensemble
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CST
    Resonancia, a short documentary by Ted Nash and Cathy Barbash
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    JEN Registration Open
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CST
    Considering Hip Hop in the Jazz Community
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CST
    Evening the Playing Field: WIJO Institutional Audits
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CST
    Hoover HS First Edition Jazz Ensemble
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CST
    Temporal Taal Collective
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CST
    The Jazz Band Rehearsal - A Work of Art
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CST
    The Next Hundred Years: Preserving the History - and Ensuring the Future - of Jazz
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    AAJC Meeting
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Bonney Lake HS Vocal Persuasion
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Edmund Burke School Jazz Ensemble
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Moises Vela MS Jazz 2
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra Combo I
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    An Analysis of Mary Halvorson's Improvisational and Compositional Style
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    An Analysis on Brad Mehldau's Improvisation on Nobody Else But Me
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Analysis of the Career and Playing of Steve Grossman
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Beyond the Right Notes: Examination of the Artistry of Jazz Bass Through the Analysis of Ron Carter’s Performance
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Beyond Thematic Improvisation: Sonny Rollins’ Radical Improvisational Tendencies Post-Bridge 1962-1967
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Commercial Trumpet Style: A step-by-step guide to sounding like the masters
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Early New Orleans Jazz Education
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Expanding the Drummer's Role in Jazz: An Analysis of Paul Motian’s Drumming on Sunday at the Village Vanguard
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    How Narratives Inspire Ambrose Akinmusire's Composition and Performance Practices
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Irene Higginbotham: Unsung Songwriter
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Jazz Education Online: Mapping the Landscape of Digital Learning Platforms.
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Modern Day Ragging, Tracing the Compositional Approach to Improvisation from Jelly Roll and Armstrong through the 21st Century
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    More Than a Good Beat: A Pedagogical Method for Adapting Hip Hop Repertoire for Small Jazz Ensembles
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    One Hundred Years Of The Charleston: It’s Origins, Essence, And Staying Power
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Plugged In and Left Out: Why Guitar Ensembles Deserve a Place in Jazz Education
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Psyche of a Jazzwoman: Gendered Psychological Barriers to Jazz Participation
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Ravel, Satie and post-bop jazz
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Rolling Out the Redd Carpet: Life and Career of Female Saxophonist Vi Redd
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    The Compositional and Improvisational Style of Kenny Kirkland
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CST
    From Basics To Breakthroughs Building Instincts For Improvisation
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CST
    Pedagogy at Berklee: Our Body and Soul – How We Do What We Do
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CST
    Sara Gazarek Band
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CST
    The Sistering: Advancing the tradition of collaboration in Jazz. How four wise women joined forces to tell a new story.
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    International Welcome Gathering
  • 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Foundations of Afro Cuban Jazz Styles
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Clint Small MS Jazz Ensemble
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Downey HS Elysian Jazz Choir
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    Temple HS Highlighters
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CST
    The Little Beasts
  • 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM CST
    Florida State University Jazz Orchestra
  • 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM CST
    The Gottlieb/Danielsson Group, with Hans Backenroth & Harry Watters
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CST
    EXHIBITOR WELCOME! (Exhibit Hall Open)
  • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST
    JEN Registration Open
  • 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM CST
    2026 AAJC Donald Meade Legacy Jazz Griot Award
  • 8:10 PM - 9:00 PM CST
    Cal State Long Beach "Pacific Standard Time" Vocal Jazz Ensemble
  • 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM CST
    2026 LeJENd of Jazz Education Award
  • 9:10 PM - 10:00 PM CST
    Diaz Music Institute Caliente with Nestor Torres and Oskar Cartaya
  • 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM CST
    2026 LeJENd of Latin Jazz Keeper of the Flame Award
  • 10:10 PM - 11:00 PM CST
    Bob Mintzer/Dave Stryker Quartet featuring Peter Erskine, John Clayton
  • 11:00 PM - 11:59 PM CST
    Suspended Sea Nonet
  • 11:59 PM - 1:30 AM CST
    JJF JAM: Advanced
  • 11:59 PM - 1:30 AM CST
    JJF JAM: Intermediate
  • 11:59 PM - 1:30 AM CST
    JJF JAM: Novice
  • 11:59 PM - 1:30 AM CST
    PRO JAM Network Hang!