Welcome to Baker's Jazz and More
We are a music publishing and retail company specializing in high quality original Jazz and Salsa charts for jazz ensembles of all levels and marching bands.
This music is available through Baker’s Jazz And More, RBC Music, and Pender’s Music Co..
Click Charts to browse our entire catalog and listen to mp3 excerpts (1-2MB) or full length recordings (5-8MB) of the piece. Read our monthly newsletter, The BJAM Session, and learn about our Composers as well as upcoming Events across Texas.
Finally, you can Contact us to Place an Order (we strongly encourage this!) or just to say hello or even “what were you thinking?!” Seriously, we’d love to hear from you and are eager to work with you to meet your needs, including additional or alternate parts for non-traditional instrumentation or possibly a commission for a custom chart written specifically for your band.
News and Updates
We’re back from TMEA, and boy are our feet sore! THANK YOU to all who came by our booth, and especially those who bought some charts. This was our best TMEA yet in terms of sales. Our demo CD’s and catalogs were quite popular, too. In fact, we almost ran out of both of them before the convention was over. Interest in BJAM music is definitely on the rise.
Through our association with Mike Vax, BJAM was able to provide music for sightreading practice for the ATSSB Jazz Ensemble rehearsal, and Mike is taking a copy of “Riffin’ on the Duke” to Monroe, La. next week where he’ll be the clinician for the All-Region Jazz Band there. Mike will also be promoting our catalog on his upcoming tour with the Stan Kenton Alumni Band in April. BJAM music is on the move!
Another great development for us is………….
BJAM music is now available through Pender’s Music Co.! Several band directors from the north Texas area who regularly do business through Pender’s asked if they could order our music there, too, and we’d like everybody to know that our music can be ordered and purchased there as well as through RBC Music and, of course, directly through this website either by Paypal or purchase order. If none of those methods work for you, contact us directly and we’ll do whatever we can to take care of business.
TJEA The first inaugural meeting of the Texas Jazz Educators Association took place this past Friday at the TMEA convention and was quite well attended – Easily the highest attendance I’ve seen in the past several years of IAJE Texas meetings. It’s great to see so many directors and students supporting jazz education in this state.
Major agenda items included the announcement that TJEA is now a fully formed bona fide 501c3 organization, and the beginning of the nomination process for TJEA officers. For more information on this, please consult the TJEA website. Results of the election will be announced on March 16th, 2009. For further information about TJEA or anything to do with Jazz Education in Texas, please contact Alex Parker, Director of Jazz Studies at Baylor University, 254-710-4625 or by email at Alex_Parker@baylor.edu.
Another important announcement is that the All-Region Jazz audition music will now be made available on May 15th so that students will have all summer to work on it without taking time and energy away from summer band, marching music, and the regular All-Region Band etudes.
Finally, in addition to the recent losses of jazz greats Freddie Hubbard, David “Fathead’ Newman and Hank Crawford, we remember in memorium Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett who were on the plane that crashed in Buffalo, N.Y. recently. They were traveling there to play a concert with Chuck Mangione. Teachers, make sure you know who these musicians were and what they contributed, and then make sure your students know.