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Grant Green played a 330 for a stretch of his career. I think a thinline full-hollow with P-90's makes a very-comfortable-to-play and great-sounding jazz guitar. I have a "John Lennon" Japanese/US Epiphone Casino, (which I got before Heritage offered the 530), and, it's a nice guitar for jazz. The fact that it --like most original 330s and Casino's-- has a fairly narrow neck is not a disadvantage since bending is less significant in traditional jazz. (I'm not sure if 530's usually had narrow necks?) The Casino even has enough acoustic volume to be fine for practice without plugging in. Nathan Borton has some very interesting jazz guitar videos, in my humble opinion ... and, his point is well taken that it is remarkable the degree to which an entire generation of jazz guitar players learned their craft primarily by copying the recordings that Charlie Christian made with Bennie Goodman's small groups (and "Solo Flight," with the big band.)