Jazz Combos
MUJ 395/695
Mike Denny, faculty advisor

Small jazz ensembles are an integral part of the jazz studies program at the University of Oregon. They offer serious jazz students a work place for honing skills in improvisation and developing their ability to communicate spontaneously in performance with other group members. Students wishing to perform in a jazz combo must have taken the jazz theory/ improvisation course sequence or demonstrate an understanding of these materials through performance. New groups are formed at the beginning of each term with students placed according to their level of experience.