| At this point for you all you have to do is listen to lots of great jazz players and try to practice improvising as much as you can. Do it with friends, or Aebersold's, or even just alone and unaccompanied. You get more and more comfortable improvising and begin to have more interesting things to play.
In a little bit you're going to want to start doing transcriptions and playing along with those. And you'll also want to practice patterns in all keys and tonalities. You can start with Clarke's #2 in major but try to do them in all keys in major, minor, altered, diminished, and whole tone.
As Chase Sanborn says, a jazz player must be able to play anything one hears and they must be able to hear something worth playing. |