Jazz is a whole nother musical language. Imagine if you ran into a guitarist who lived in a remote region of Africa and who had never listened to rock music before and by chance had heard a song one day by Iron Maiden and had said to you "I want to learn how to play rock guitar". Well the 1st thing you would probably do is give him a whole stack of cd's and tell him to listen to these and get back to me within a week.
If your interested in jazz start by doing a lot of listening, there is no magic scales or chord progressions in jazz but just a lot of subtle nuances to stuff you all ready know. Just like rock music, you must be able to "feel" it before you can start to reproduce it.