You realize that not everyone who played music when they were young or just younger than now stuck with it, don't you? The exigencies of life tend to lead many people in other directions and cause them to hang it up. This is true of many activities like sports, artistic endeavors, writing etc. However the old saying that it's never too late is definitely true in relations to doing something that pleases you for that reason alone. And the other saying that is totally true in this regard is What do you have to lose? It's the journey that's important, not the destination because there is no destination in music. Go for it and enjoy yourself. And get a good teacher. I played by myself for the first 2 years back and it was harder than if I had gotten a teacher right away. Plus many teacers have combos and groups they put together and that's a way to get into playing with others. I played in one of my second teacher's combos for 3 years and it was great. We had 3 tenors, 2 altos, a great guitarist (he was a teacher too), a keyboard player, our sax teacher on bass (multi instrumentalist), a drummer and 2 vocalists. We played gigs at a couple of local bars and also concerts in the community. I never would have gotten to do that had I not taken the horn by the bull and started playing again after 35 years of regretting I had given it up. Don't live in regret and cudda, shudda, wudda man, go for it NOW. Get a decent cheap horn, a good mpc that is not too extreme for a re-newbie, and start playing. Long tones, scales, chord tones, circle of fifths/fourths and IMHO, the chromatic scale up and down till you can run it at 300 bps. It's the mother of all scales and basically what made Bird the giant he was. Every scale was just a part of the Mother Scale to him.
