Each style and era of jazz adopted new techniques to help educate younger musicians.
 Early forms of jazz education were more informal.
 Since the first degree program was founded in 1947, the rise of institutionalized jazz education, resulted in jazz education becoming more formalized and more structured.
 Formalized jazz education has brought a new wave of interest in jazz.
 JazzTimes.com currently lists 492 collegiate jazz programs globally.
 This database is exclusive to just schools that offer majors and does not include the number of schools that also offer jazz courses in their curriculum.
 The formalization of jazz was and still is a controversial subject.
 Many professional musicians believe that it has harmed the spirit of the music, while others maintain that it has been beneficial for the art form.
!!!
 ( ) is an American dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, United States, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer.
 Members of !!!
 came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers.
 They are currently based in New York City.
 The band's seventh album, "Shake the Shudder", was released in May 2017.
Out Hud was an electronic band formed in 1996 in the Bay Area of California and later based in New York City.
 The band consisted of guitarist Nic Offer, bassist Tyler Pope, cellist Molly Schnick, vocalist/drummer Phyllis Forbes and mixer Justin Van Der Volgen.
 Pope, Offer, and Van Der Volgen are also members of the similar band, !!!
.
 Their first album, "S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D." was instrumental.
 For their second album, "Let Us Never Speak Of It Again", the group added vocals to their music, with Forbes singing lead while a drum machine filled in her usual role, assisted with Schnick on backing vocals.
Olve Eikemo (born 27 June 1973), better known by his stage name Abbath Doom Occulta or simply Abbath, is a Norwegian musician best known as a founding member of the black metal band Immortal.
 Before founding Immortal, Abbath performed with Old Funeral alongside future Immortal member Demonaz.
 While working with Old Funeral, he also joined Demonaz's band Amputation which later became Immortal.
 He also plays bass in Demonaz's eponymous project.
Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1991 by frontman and bassist Abbath Doom Occulta (Olve Eikemo) and guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta (Harald Nævdal).
 The pair worked with various drummers (including Grim, Armagedda and Hellhammer), and were later joined by current drummer Horgh (Reidar Horghagen) in 1996.
There are a great number of music competitions that offer prizes for performance and composition in both classical and popular music.
 Prizes may be monetary, but may also be in the form of less tangible things such as scholarships, recording contract, concert performances, a chance to have one's composition published or performed by an orchestra, etc.
 Some music festivals—even though there may be a "winner"—offer nothing more than exposure on television.
 That is important for musicians, but not technically a "prize" and those items are not included on this list.
 Nor are in-house conservatory prizes included—that is, competitions open only to students of the respective conservatory.
 This list includes competitions that are, generally speaking, open to "all-comers," although some of them impose age limits or residency (in Italy) requirements.
 The list, below, divided by area of interest; that is, classical, jazz, opera, instrumental, etc.
 Most of the competitions listed are annual affairs.
 Where possible, the competition name is linked to an external site, or an email address is provided where further details should be available.
The Older Ones is the first compilation album by Norwegian blackened death metal band Old Funeral, which was made up by key players in the Norwegian black metal scene, including bassist/vocalist Olve "Abbath" Eikemo (Immortal), guitarist Harald "Demonaz" Nævdal (Immortal) and guitarist Kristian "Varg" Vikernes (Burzum).
 By the time this album was released, the members had already gone their separate ways, with Immortal a going concern for Abbath and Varg in jail.
Culcha Vulcha is the eleventh album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy, released on April 29, 2016.
 The album includes performances by a number of musicians loosely associated with the band and called "the Fam".
 The band's first purely studio album in eight years (since "Bring Us the Bright"), it was recorded at the Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, near El Paso and Atlantic Sound Studios in Brooklyn, New York by Nic Hard.
Nic Offer (born 1972) is a New York City-based musician.
 He is best known as the vocalist of the dance/punk band !!!
, which he helped form in Sacramento, California in 1996.
 Offer also played bass and keyboards for the electronic band Out Hud from 1996 until 2005.
Dual is an album by four acclaimed Irish and Scottish musicians: Éamonn Doorley, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (both prominently of Danú), Julie Fowlis and Ross Martin.
 (Its title means "to braid, to twine, inheritance or native" in both Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic.)

Question: Are Olve Eikemo and Nic Offer both musicians ?
Answer: yes