Spring 2027

Jazz Ensemble

Jazz Ensemble involves assignments in performing ensemble literature, requiring auditions and instructor consent for new enrollees to rehearse and perform classic jazz repertoire in live settings.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Arun LuthraGabriel WadeJohannes Wallmann +2 more

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Rehearse and competently perform in multiple live settings a range of classic jazz repertoire.

  • Perform jazz music with technical accuracy, stylistic authenticity and individual creativity.

  • Contextualize the repertoire in its culture and history.

  • Make continual improvements in the areas of individual tone production, music reading, and improvisation, and develop and enhance ensemble communication and interaction.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

MUSIC 262

  • MUSIC 262
MUSIC 262 used by

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  • MUSIC 262

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ARUN LUTHRA is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOHANNES WALLMANN is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

NICKOLAS MORAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LAB 096Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LAB 050Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LAB 064Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LAB 196Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LAB 101Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LAB 150Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LAB 066Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Classic jazz repertoire
  • Technical accuracy and stylistic authenticity in jazz performance
  • Cultural and historical context of jazz
  • Tone production, music reading, improvisation, and ensemble interaction

Skills

  • Competent performance of classic jazz repertoire in live settings with technical accuracy, stylistic authenticity, and individual creativity.
  • Improvement in individual tone production, music reading, improvisation, and enhancement of ensemble communication and interaction.
  • Contextualizing jazz repertoire within its cultural and historical background.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
MUSIC 262 · Spring 2027

Jazz Ensemble

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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