A Passion for Jazz! Music Studios in downtown San Diego's Little Italy district is a veteran-owned studio on Columbia Street offering private jazz-piano instruction in theory, harmony, and improvisation. Lesson content builds from chord voicings, modes, and scale patterns toward performance-level jazz piano, developing the same technical vocabulary audiences hear at Music Box and other East Village concert stages. The studio's grand piano hosts one-on-one sessions that extend into composition and vocal accompaniment, teaching singers to back themselves at the keyboard. All materials—lead sheets, theory charts, harmony diagrams, and reference recordings—come included with each hour-long session, eliminating the separate textbook pipeline most private studios require. Students preparing university-level auditions work within the modal and harmonic frameworks performed at San Diego Symphony's orchestral concerts, building portfolios that pair classical technique with improvisation-based ear exams and original composition.