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The suffocating heat is unexpected as one fan enters the Hockey Silo in Chino. "It sure is stuffy in here," he says, making his way around the rink to sit on the bleachers with other fans.

Pangs of an electric guitar; smoothness of the saxophone; thumps from the bass; clashing of wooden sticks on drums and cymbals; and the wailing of wind through a trumpet or trombone. Collectively, these sounds could not prevent the bobbing of heads and tapping of feet during the ULV Jazz Ensemble's concert Friday night.

It takes one to know one. That could be a theme for the University of La Verne's Music Department. The professors and students of the department have been releasing music on compact disc and cassette.

Jazz has often been classified as the music heard when riding in an elevator. The kind of music that can only be tolerated for the short ride between floors, but by the reactions from the audience at Monday night's performance, there is no way an elevator could hold this kind of excitement.