In the New Year I'll be meeting up with a guy I met on the internet for a bit of a Jazz standards jam.        Learning jazz and walking bass has been on my to do list all through lockdown I just lacked motivation to pick up and play.   In recent months I've been playing a lot more but not much focussed practice and now I've gone and committed myself to this new beginners jazz group.   It's been pitched as a beginners level so I'm not expecting to master anything in just a few