Trgve,

I love cutting and pasting, slicing and dicing the melodic ideas in RealTracks solos so that I get the feeling that I'm a kind of Dracula, sucking the juice out of the RealTracks artist's brain and re-shaping them according to my own tastes.

Here you've managed to create a long solo where I don't hear the familiar licks or repetition. That is remarkable. My only criticism comes from personal taste: I like my solos short and a total track time of around 3 and 1/2 minutes. I developed this preference as I acclimated to the Forum, which is not a jazz venue. It's hard to get folks anywhere to listen improvised non-rock music, so jazz performances on the Forum has to be melodically accessible (yours is) and short (yours isn't).

Most important, however, your tune is beautifully executed. How about something more modern, a little more adventurous?

Dean Clark (aka Aleck Rand)