Help with jazz improv??!?!?

i play tennor sax and i HATE improving. im just not good and i dont explore my possibilities i guess. im am 1st chair in jazz band and get a lot of solos. can someone give me lists of the scales or something- in class we use the concert b flat blues scale for me its c, e flat, f, f#, g, b flat, c and i only use those notes and idk... im a really good player at written solos but when it comes to improving i suck. can anyone give me sheet music that i can memorize or something? my teacher is trying to get me to do it but im just not comfortable making up music someone help me please?!?

Listen to a lot of good jazz saxophone player. Guys like Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter, Phil Woods, Paul Desmond and so many others.
Ad lib is instant composition of music based (in tune) on your feeling, from your heart and your soul.

I have an album from Duke Ellington, recorded live at Newport, where Paul Gonsalves (tenor sax) plays 27 chorus without interruption on the tune: Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue. That's improvisation.
A masterpiece!

My piano teacher showed me a jazz improv book I could use, it played tracks and I just had to make music up to go along with it. I'm sure you could purchase it for a tenor sax, it will help you prepare for class.
GOOD LUCK!! :D

The issue is that the song may be in concert Bb, but the chord changes may not be. Playing a memorized solo will sound like that, and it will sound uninteresting. Unfortunately it takes experimentation to learn improvisation. Just have fun with it. After all, it isn't like you can be "wrong" in improvising. Just have fun with it.

a good place to start trying to use the blues scale, is to listen to BB king when he plays a guitar solo. BB is the absolute best at using the blues scale

The blues scale is like a hammer, and as they say, when you give someone a hammer, everything becomes a nail.

The blues scale is useful in blues. I don't know what harmonic context your solos exist in, but I'll bet they aren't all blues. You need more tools than the blues scale.

Look into Jamey Aebersold. He produced a whole bunch of CDs and books on improvising. They are fantastic and I recommend them fully.

Let's say you have a progression Dm7 - G7 - C. You want to avoid the B on Dm7, as it's the strongest tone in G7 yet to come. Then, you want to avoid C on G7, as it's the resolution of the leading tone. Then, you want to avoid F on C, as it's the sus4 of the strong 3rd. If you can figure out why this is so, you are doing great. Ponder this awhile.