People use C*s for jazz pieces all the time. However, I'd advise against using the same piece for both. Your current setup sounds like a winner. If you go to just one mouthpiece, you'll be sacrificing in one area or the other. -Wade

If it's the Jazz piece that's giving you trouble, look into a Claude Lakey. They're REALLY good mouthpieces, and run around $60 tops. I've used a Lakey 5*3 on my alto since high school and wouldn't trade it for the world! -Wade

I'm pretty sure there is a reason for the Graftonite being about $20, its true many people have varying tastes and preferences but i still preach the Meyer. The plastic chips in your mouth are a prolem i've never heard of, take a good look in the mouthpiece for chips or cracks especially around the rails at the front and look if your neck is scraping the inside of the troat of your mouth piece. If there is wear in these areas it could distort your sound later on if it isn't allready, in which case you need to buy a new one. There really is no perfect mouthpiece, not one that is great for every style. As my father says "everything about the sax is a compromise." Tone vs. control. Light vs. dark. Edge vs. warmth. Figure out what you want before you go buying some hundred dollar mouth piece, test as many as you can, and go on some "spiritual saxophone tone jorney." Find out the kind of sound you want, you can't have it all. Except maybe Jesus has a mouthpiece that can do it all.