Jazz is an improvisation-based genre of music. It has a language — sort of. It has constraints — sort of. It has traditions – sort of. What’s firm of about jazz is the requirement to listen. All musicians desiring to engage in the improvisation-based genre that is jazz must listen.
Musician A hears a musical idea played by Musician B. Musician A wants to contribute to Musician B’s work. They pull from their knowledge base and their own ideas about music and output an idea that furthers Musician B’s expression.
Principle: Listen to how people respond.
A skilled interviewer (Musician A) takes to the answers of the interviewee (Musician B) as an input. The interviewer runs the input through a process — connecting ideas to other ideas, figuring out how to be more curious, deciding to challenge the interviewee, or perhaps something else. The interviewer outputs a follow up question or prompt. The interviewee rewards the interviewer with more insights.
What emerges from this input/process/output (IPO) approach is “jazz”. An artful exchange of questions, challenges, and insights.
Don’t overthink what to ask. There are no “right” questions. Their is only your curiosity and how you deploy it.
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