I am so happy you're here 😀 I can't wait to start sharing with you and see and hear you improve. I have a few questions... Have you tried all the old ways of learning Jazz? Trying to memorize hundreds of licks? Using endless method books? Copying others? And got nowhere, fast? If so, join the club :) I made a break through while teaching my breakthrough :) about Mastering the Improvised Line - that The Song (can be and is ) the Teacher. And what I mean by that is so many beginner and intermediate players - where I was years ago - look for answers in mostly the wrong places - licks - scales - transcribing - and endless theories. They go through years of all that and realize they have little or no repertoire. The licks they learned only work in certain circumstances. Scales, while an important part of playing, in and of themselves serve no real purpose other than technique on your instrument. (We'll work on how to implement them, musically) Copying our heroes, while a useful step at the very beginning of our journey as a jazz player is important, ultimately it's a means to an end. How much do you want to sound like someone else? And as far as method books, some have great ideas, great concepts, sure, but too many theories can bog you down while you play, and usually the authors tell you their way is the only way. (It's not) The songs, when you see what them for what they actually are, show us everything we need. They are an acre of diamonds at our feet. Let's see them and let them fulfill us. Let's do this thing right - slowly and correctly. And the songs they will lead us! 😀

Tell us about yourself and share a picture of yourself and/or your workspace Hi, my name is ______________________, I’m from ______________________, and my instrument is ________________________. For fun, I like to: 1. ______________________________________________________________________. 2. ______________________________________________________________________. 3. ______________________________________________________________________. I hope to get these things from The Song Is The Teacher 1. ______________________________________________________________________. 2. ______________________________________________________________________. 3. ______________________________________________________________________. I'll go first I'm Jim Josselyn from Oceanport, NJ and my main instrument is the guitar. For fun I like to spend time with my girlfriend Katie, and my kids Sam and Andy, play with my Irish Doodles Carly and Maggie, watch football and baseball, go out to dinner and see comedians and listen to music. With The Song Is The Teacher I hope to share the best of what I've learned over 37 years of studying jazz with people like Ted Dunbar, Sir Roland Hanna, Jimmy Heath, Steve Khan, Pat Martino and more.