Spring 2027

Advanced Jazz

Advanced individual jazz instruction focusing on technical proficiency, improvisation, and ensemble performance within the jazz idiom.

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: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate high technical proficiency with the instrument or voice.

  • Show comprehensive 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 thorough knowledge of the standard jazz repertoire

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

  • Synthesize musical abilities with skills for leading a jazz ensemble.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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MUS PERF 441 and concurrent enrollment inMUSIC 262

MUSPERF 441

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Professors

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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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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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

JOHANNES WALLMANN is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, 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 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARK HETZLER is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MATTHEW ENDRES is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, 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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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
IND 089Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 092Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 096Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 097Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 189Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 192Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 196Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 197Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 296Classroom Instruction0 / 10
IND 050Classroom Instruction0 / 100
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

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Jazz interpretation and improvisation
  • Historical and cultural context of jazz

Skills

  • High technical proficiency with instrument or voice
  • Core improvisation, accompaniment, solo, and ensemble performance techniques
  • Thorough knowledge of the standard jazz repertoire
  • Leading a jazz ensemble

Grades

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Sources & history

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Catalog & offerings

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MUSPERF 441 · Spring 2027

Advanced Jazz

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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