Spring 2027

Intermediate Jazz

Intermediate Jazz provides individual instruction for students pursuing jazz, focusing on technical proficiency, improvisation, and the standard jazz repertoire.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Mark Hetzler3.5/5Arun LuthraGabriel Wade +4 more

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate technical proficiency with the instrument or voice.

  • Show competency and fluency in core improvisation, accompaniment, solo, and ensemble performance techniques common to the jazz genre.

  • Interpret and improvise jazz in a performance practice appropriate to the idiom.

  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the standard jazz repertoire.

  • Contextualize the performance of jazz and related musics in history and culture.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Concurrent enrollment inMUSIC 262 and declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Education BM, or Music: Performance BM

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MUSPERF 241

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Raw average: 2.33/5 from 3 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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

JOHANNES WALLMANN is recorded teaching in 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.

LOUKA PATENAUDE is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MATTHEW ENDRES is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, 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

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IND 150Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 064Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 164Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 098Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 198Classroom Instruction0 / 50

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Individual jazz instruction
  • Improvisation, accompaniment, solo, and ensemble performance techniques
  • Standard jazz repertoire
  • Jazz history and culture

Skills

  • Technical proficiency with the instrument or voice.
  • Competency and fluency in core improvisation, accompaniment, solo, and ensemble performance techniques.
  • Interpret and improvise jazz in a performance practice appropriate to the idiom.
  • Knowledge of the standard jazz repertoire.
  • Contextualize jazz performance in history and culture.

Grades

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Sources & history

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MUSPERF 241 · Spring 2027

Intermediate Jazz

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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