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Jazz Appreciation Student Comments

General Student Comments:

• Thanks for a great semester. I'm glad you were able to give me a greater appreciation for that aspect of culture. I still have some work to do, but at least I'm no longer 100% clueless when it comes to music.
• Thanks for teaching us. You are a cool guy in my book. I like your passion for the music.
• Thank you for everything. It has been enlightening and fun.
• I really enjoyed this calss. Thank you.
• Thanks so much. I enjoyed the class a lot and learned a ton. Even though I have played in jazz bands and all that, I really found a new interest in the music and thanks for making it exciting.

Responses to the question: "What unexpected thing did you learn this semester?"

• I learned a lot more than I expected.
• How much jazz music has played a huge role in today's musical industry.
• I enjoy jazz and no can not stop listening to it. It influences my music.
• That it will only take a little practice and much listening to kindle my interest in jazz anew.I have learned about more artists that I will enjoy in the future.
• I learned that listening carefully and accurately to jazz is an aquired skill.
• When I started, I know nothing about jazz and very little about music. This class has given me an appreciaton of musical artestry for jazz itself. Not only can I hear the instrumentation, I realize how the sound is achieved. Thank you.
• From an evolutionary perspective, it must be more important to be flexible and adaptable than to develop a concrete internal expession. Or, maybe, once you have the concrete eternal sense of expression then you need to learn to retain it amidst a world forever oscilating.
• That I can enjoy avant garde music. I had always thought, from what little I had heard, that I would dislike it. But, stuff like Coltrane, I really enjoy.
• I had no idea that jazz was a multi-faceted genre. I will take what I've learned and continue to build on it.
• I was unaware that so many other styles of music are linked to jazz (like swing and funk).
• How big of an impact as well as how jazz piioneered the develpment of music we listen to nowadays.