Open studio manages to be relevant to beginning jazz students and professionals. There is great interplay among the students. The Hang, a kind of face book for jazz, is pure and always positive. Which is to say it is the anti-Facebook. It is a community. The many courses will give you more information that a single person could ever digest. The faculty are without exception exceptional. There is a joy vibe with every live session, and the teachers and other attendees without fail are encouraging and supportive of people playing before the class, irrespective of level. I loved jazz enough to take a chance on paying the membership fee. Now I love and appreciate jazz more than ever. Now, I consider that getting my money's worth.