how do you make a million dollars in jazz?

I've been playing again.

Stopped this last time for about 6 years or so.

I do that.

I'll play my ass off for a few years and then just stop for a few years.

Reasons behind this protocol are unknown to me.

Really.

Picking the guitar back up this time I am focused

on solo jazz guitar.

Chord comping or chording with melody.

I'm working on a set of jazz guitar standards.

Those songs that were played by a solo guitarist

in a smokey, but upscale barroom, years ago.

Why?

I have no fucking idea.

There's no place to gig any longer.

Places that would appreciate what i am attempting play do not exist now.

The only remaining answer to why is:

 That it pleases me.

I am working on building my chops back up on a

Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis model, that i had in storage and was going to

hold onto un-played but, what the hell.....

through a mark 1-12 bass amp.

Working an Archtop electric through a bass amp provides that 

very, very mellow electric guitar sound that this particular playing style requires.

Scales, wrong notes, sore fingertips----again....

Cold, icy and snowy here in the desert today and

I am happily inside with the wife and the dog.

" Hell is full of musical amateurs."

George Bernard Shaw