So, I just turned 29. And I realised as I am growing older, I want to really pursue this teenage dream of being able to produce/make music. Let's be honest here, I have no hopes of pursuing it as a career. I'm too old for this. But, I still wanna be able to get really really good at it. I did mess around the guitar a few years ago. I basically know a couple of open chords and barre chords shaped on the 5th & 6th string, lol.

If I wanted to seriously put effort into learning jazz on the guitar, what would be a solid starting point where(asking for a course/tutorial/routine) I can make the most progress in the least time(because I also have a day job, duh)..?

Can anyone recommend the best Non-Latin jazz albums by Dizzy Gillespie? Especially looking for audio recording better later than early times. Also I remember hearing an upbeat that included two-part counterpoint with the sax in the head i think. No riff tunes thx. Standards are great. Thx

Pepper Adams too. Album titles or/indivual track is great too.

Art Farmer or Chet Baler great but NO SINGING by Chet please!---lol)

Hello,

I'm a little new to jazz. I've been a classical saxophonist for the longest time, but I always wanted to be killing at jazz saxophone since it looks so cool. I'm struggling with this one song where there is a vamp between G7sus and A7sus, and I want to know what sales/melodic concepts work well over this. I've tried doing major pentatonic over both of these (C major Pentatonic and D major pentatonic), but it just doesn't sound right. Any/all ideas would be great!

Any advice for (guitar) voicing variations over the A section? (F6 Gb7)

Does anybody know of some good videos/other resources for a beginner learning how to improv? I play alto sax if that makes any difference

Just gotten into jazz music really been feeling Bozza Nova Jazz. Wondering what anyone else might recommend, and I have been wanting to play a instrument either Trumpet, Piano (really just those two). Any advise into how to get started on wanting to learn a new instrument??

I want to get out and play more at my Local Jazz Lounge as the owner said that he wants to see me around more but it's pretty hard to get a group together. I'm a Trumpet player and ive been playing Jazz since 2020 and didnt really dive deep into it until my Senior Year of H.S. (last year).

Should I go play at the Local Jazz Lounge by myself? Do I need to bring anything besides my horns and mutes? My Trumpet professor (who is a huge Jazz guy) mentioned using a speaker with a backing track, but I don't know the etiquette for that. The gigs at the lounge are 3 hour sets. If you play then you play for the whole night, which In a quartet/quintet I love because theres a lot more room to interact with one another but I'm hesitant as a solo horn player that doesn't have the most gigging experience in the world.

Anyone have any advice on how I should approach this?

Hey all!

Curious about the music business side of jazz music: how do y'all go about getting gigs? So far, I've been cold emailing bars/etc (with a brief bio/recordings) asking about gigs and going to jam sessions to get my name out there to other musicians.

Do any jazz veterans have advice? I'm a young guy just starting out with my own quartet. Thanks in advance.

Hello! I am a singer. I sing classical,R&b, Pop, gospel and learning how to sing in jazz style. I have the singing down mostly because I learn to sing by ear and mimicking. I went to school to study opera, but now I’m trying to be an artist and want to learn jazz theory/piano/composition to help with my song writing. What are some steps that I can take to teach myself/ learn? I wanted to study as I got my masters in Voice performance, but it doesn’t seem to be coming into fruition. Thank you for your help in advance.

How long did you have to play before you could play a whole standard, with intro full form solo section end ect and be happy with how you sounded and be willing to play it in public? I guess, how long did you play before you started to really sound like you know what you’re doing lol. I can really tell I’ve come so far, my language has gotten 10x better, I can actually string together phrases and hear what’s going on inside my head when I play. My problem is it’s like there’s a fog covering all of it still. I can make out all of the crude shapes and silhouettes that I’m hearing but it’s all just... not quite right... close but not quite. How long did you play before you really started to just hear and play?