Running Your Teaching Studio A Guide For the Private Music Teacher. Emile and Laura De Cosmos have lived music all of their lives. The De Cosmos currently reside in Florida. Jazz is your electricity, your life energy.
Jazz has more than one definition, and jazz has different definitions to different people.
It also can mean different things to the same people at different times. Some think about a quality of swing when they define jazz - a sound that evokes a feeling of wanting to tap your feet or clap your hands. One quality of jazz common to all definitions is improvisation - to ad lib, fake, ride or jam. This is when a musician composes and performs simultaneously. Some musicians use jazz as a synonym for improvisation.