Saxophones, seaside
In college, I took a course called History of Jazz. It consisted, almost in its entirety, of picking a jazz record, playing it, then writing a few sentences about each song. A regular assignment might have read something like this: “Thelonius Monk’s Boo Boo’s Birthday starts out with some piano. Then you can hear a saxophone. I think. Is that a clarinet? Well heck, why not! After that…”