To Doug
nice solo playing! i'd like to hear more of the melody come out. a lot of times you allow the melody to disappear as you play accompanying chords and such. if you can work it in so that some of hte melody notes ring instead of disappearing or stopping when you get into the busy stuff, that would add some weight to your arrangement.
on trio stuff, i like that too. i think you might have gone up a bit high in the bass range sometimes, but that might just be that i'm using built in midi sounds from win 2000 right now instead of my module. i do like the bends you put into the bass here and there.
the drums are cool too- kind of tony williams-esque. the rim shots on 4 are nifty. i always enjoy it when a drummer does that when things "get going"
one thing i didn't hear is that neat half step modulation that people sometimes do in speak low.
basically, in the gm7-c7 and in the bbm-eb7 section, you can go:
| gm7 | c7 | abm7 | db7 |
| gm7 c7 | gm7 c7 | fm7 | f7#9 |
| bbm7 | eb7 | bm7 | e7 |
| am7 d7 | gm7 c7 | fm7 | % |
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