There are tons of great music educators on-line. Some are also remarkable jazz pianists.  So, for now I place you in their hands.   I am easily amazed by those on-line instructors who are able to spoon feed basic (and advanced) lessons to their hungry students.  They do it so well. 

Me: I am not a conventional academic music/jazz professor type. See, when I began there were no textbooks, just vinyl records and my heros who played in the jazz clubs.  I hung over their shoulders, and just kept asking them questions on their breaks.  I'd then - by myself - invent systems (frameworks) in order to play what I had heard. Soon enough, my growing personal knowledge provided a solid basis for disciplined self-education. My journey in improvising music has been that of making new pretty complex discoveries daily, and putting those discoveries into a nearly Universal understanding of sound. To “understand” however is to put theory into practice by simplifying things for the body. 

What I have realized is far from “RULE BASED.” There are 100s of full notebooks showing my dissections and analyses. I have started to put these into a very complete thesis text entitled provisionally “FRAME OF REFERENCE.” 

Truthfully I'd rather be creating and discovering than writing a book.  To really play what you feel and hear internally requires one to intentionally let go of one's rules.  But that requires knowing what you already know, so you can let it go.  I do not know. We'll see.