Throw in a double bass and you have my complete attention,got a tickle about couple months ago at practice,working on one of Rays tunes,Sans was doing the chording and my jazz side kicked in started laying some smooth riffs on the bass and Steve fell in with some nice swells fron the skins we just layed back and the sweetness just rolled off,we were into it about 5/10 minutes,when we pulled down and Ray asks,"What was that?" oh that was your tune with a little backgrond jazz flavoring,takes a whole different direction when you get to the improv that jazz can do.
two years+ of formal and a lot of road studies does that,anyway my two cents worth on jazz and you can play it anytime won't bother me!
I am so jealous Jazz musicians kickass. Many of them are also classical musicians, such as members of Return To Forever.