Hello Fred,

Along the same lines of developing live jazz improv skills, for years I've been meaning to use PG Music's Band-in-a-Box to jam along with. You can tell BIAB the chord progressions and music style you want, and it will provide the accompaniment as you play the lead. This sounds like a lot of fun, in addition to improving one's chops.

I've been a slow learner picking up jazz technique, partly because I'm not spending enough time getting it into my ears by listening to good jazz. Also, keyboard jazz technique just seems to require a lot of hard-earned keyboard technique.

Cheers
-- Mark