Anyone here have any tips for jazz improvisation?
this year i got 2 solos, London Derryair, and a latin arrangment called bossa madira

i play the saxophone and this year for the school talent quest i didnt plan anything and improvised for about 3 minutes.  I basically used a basic blues scale G Bflat C Csharp D G (i think but not 100 % sure) and just alternated between all these notes.  Occaisionally i'd go psycho and run up and down the chromatic scale at crazy speed and then slow it down, but make sure u finish on at Bflat to a G! Should work wonders.

well basically when i play its anything goes but a traditional 'bluesy/jazzy' rhythm would have to be a crotchet - quaver triplet. . . . or dotted quaver, semiquaver.  But keep the rhythm nice and free so when you speed up you can basically run up and down scales with the notes being very even and then when you slow down you can start the so called, jumpy rhythm.

You can take the blues scale off any note you want, just have to have the intervals right thats all.  I choose off G because that his how I learnt it and that is what is easiest for me!

Good luck with it!

PolyN