My take on learning how to play Jazz. Stop trying to play the right notes --- but when you do hit a wrong note quick get back to the right one.

My suggestion;
listen to the musician you love best. Listen, listen and listen. The jazz lines will come from your heart and not your head. As a guitar player I took many lesson on this subject, but I listened to Johnny Smith constantly. Years later I was playing his jazz and his style without thinking.

Too many good players that study jazz begin to sound like scale and scale mode players – their jazz lines all sound alike.

I’m getting real old, I love to preach, John C.