...as the old song lyric goes. Sorry to anyone who has taken an interest in this blog, only to find a sudden halt to any new content. Unfortunately, I've just moved house and it's taking an inordinate amount of time to get a broadband connection sorted!
Rest assured that there will be new posts here within the next couple of days as soon as I'm back online. As a sneak preview, the next post will be a discussion of that elusive, but essential element in jazz - swing. I'll be dicussing what it is, why it's so important in jazz and how you can develop it in your playing.
I hope you'll bear with me at the moment and continue to check back here when you can.
Many Thanks
SeasideMan
Pro 
I've just read your first few posts and I shall probably read your future ones too. But I would just like to say that I don't think jazz is necessarily any more difficult to do well than other musical forms that require many years of practice. I don't think you could objectively prove that playing jazz piano is harder to do well than to play reggae bass to the standard of (say) Robbie Shakespeare, or classical cello to the standard of Heinrich Schiff. They all take 20 years to get to the top of the game.
Personally, I play Blues guitar as an amateur and I get a lot of pleasure from it. I could have chosen jazz instead but I simply prefer Blues.
Tom.