2024 CHARTS
A new chart available every two months
New charts commissioned each year for JEN Full Individual Members and Chapter Organizers.
You may download these great charts from some of the very best jazz composers of our time!
CURRENT FEATURED COMPOSER
Available
SEP 1 – OCT 31
As a JEN Full Individual member, you may download these great charts from some of the very best jazz composers of our time!
THE FINE PRINT
*JEN members may produce and perform the charts with their own education or not-for-profit ensembles and performing groups.
Unauthorized reporduction, distribution, or performance of the JEN Member Benefit Program compositions beyond such educational or non-commercial use is strictly prohibited.
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BENEATH AN EVENING SKY
ABOUT MATT FALKER
MATT FALKER is a jazz and gospel pianist, vocalist, arranger and clinician. As a full-time professor at MiraCosta College, Matt directs the Downbeat award-winning Frequency vocal jazz program, teaches theory and piano classes, and is founder and director of the Oceanside Jazz Festival, a non-competitive vocal jazz festival hosted at MiraCosta. Matt was also one of a select group of teachers chosen as a quarter-finalist for the GRAMMY’s Music Educator Award.
Driven by a passion to ensure that quality vocal jazz music is available to educators, Matt’s arrangements are written for choirs of all levels. He now distributes his music through his publishing company, Anchor Music Publications (formerly Sound Music Publications founded by Frank DeMiero in 1988), as well as the music of dozens of other arrangers and composers in the vocal jazz community.
Anchor Music also runs a series of one-day vocal jazz workshops for teachers and students called the Vocal Jazz Academy, and hosts an Educator Support community for hundreds of educators on Facebook. The Academy workshops take place primarily in the fall, and will be hosted in numerous locations around the United States and Canada.
As a vocalist and pianist, he has presented featured sets at both the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Western Division Conference, with both the Matt Falker Quartet and the ensemble True North. In 2019, he presented a performance of his singing, playing, and arranging at the International Jazz Voice Conference in Helsinki, Finland.
anchormusic.com / oceansidejazzfestival.com / vocaljazzacademy.com
BONUS CHARTS
Available Year-Round
AFTER CHARLIE
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MR. LEE’S GROOVE
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JEN TEN
PREVIOUSLY COMMISSIONED JEN CHARTS
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2023
2023 Commissioned Charts
- John Fedchock • WINDS OF CHANGE • Developing Big Band
- Darmon Meader • AFTER YOU’VE GONE • SATB Vocal Jazz
- Mehmet Ali Sanlikol • FROM THE 7 HILL OF NEW ROME TO THE CITY UPON A HILL • Advanced Big Band
- Shamie Royston • TWISTED BLUES • Developing Big Band
- Carmen Staff • THERE AGAIN, HERE AGAIN • Jazz Combo
- Jenna McLean • BRIGHTER DAY • SSA Vocal Jazz
2022
2022 Commissioned Charts
- WINTER SOLSTICE – Developing Big Band – Jiyee Lee
- IN THE CIRCLE – SATB Vocal Jazz – Cedric Dent
- LOST PAGES – Advanced Big Band – John Beasley
- SPIRIT SONG – Developing Big Band – Ellen Rowe
- FORWARD, LIKE SO – SSA Vocal Jazz – Julia Dollison
- JELLY ROLL BLUES – Latin Chart for Jazz Combo – Etienne Charles
2021
2021 Commissioned Charts
- NOTORIOUS RBG – Medium Big Band – Ayn Inserto
- IF YOU LOOK IN – SATB Vocal Jazz – Kate Skinner
- BLOW YOUR HORN – Advanced Big Band – John Clayton
- GUMBO TIME – Developing Big Band – Kris Berg
- I WANT TO BE HAPPY – SATB Vocal Jazz – John Stafford II
- THE BIG DANCE – Latin Chart for Jazz Combo – Miguel Zenon
2020
2020 Commissioned Charts
- FILMORE STREET MAMBO – Advanced Big Band – Wayne Wallace
- RED-LIGHT GREEN-LIGHT – Medium Big Band – Ben Markley
- FOOD COMA – Easy Big Band – Rick Hirsch
- SWEET EMMA “B” – Combo – Dee Spencer
- NEW ORLEANS HOP SCOP BLUES – SSA Vocal Jazz – Kathleen Hollingsworth
- BOURBON STREET BLUES – SATB Vocal Jazz – Jennifer Barnes
2019
2019 Commissioned Charts
- SUMMIT – Advanced Big Band – Patty Darling
- IN THE MEANTIME – Medium Big Band – Erik Morales
- BEST DAY EVER – Easy Big Band – Mike Dana
- TAKE THE NEXT TRAIN – Combo – Horace Alexander Young
- THIS MAKE BELIEVE – SSA Vocal Jazz – Jennifer Parker
- RELEASE – SATB Vocal Jazz – Vijay Singh