Mac, your note was a music lesson in of itself! I have alway loved jazz, especially the big band era, because there was so much rich yet occasionally subtle movements going on under the melody. When I got BIAB one of the first songs I stumbled upon was "Peggy's Mood." And I have been in love with that arrangement that I have been taking it apart to see what may have come easy to the writers and arrangers so that I can then begin to see trends in the genre to where I can, like you said, become familiar with the known changes and what to do in them.

Thanks, I hope you do not mind my asking these types of elementary questions here. I am digging this experience and only wish I had this years ago.