i did this quite a while ago, and dug it out just to get the ball rolling.
a few years ago, i bought most of the maybeck hall cds (had to import them into australia - expensive!) and they were for some time my main tutors in jazz piano, since they were well recorded solo piano concerts by many of the 'greats'. i imagine that i did this after listening to (studying) the monty alexander version - so you were absolutely right.
i added markers (labels/descriptions of things that might be of interest to students) to this - unfortunately, they are only really useful if the midi file is played within cakewalk or sonar. they are a great teaching aid as the interesting bits can be described, and they appear as the score scrolls along in the notation page - or they appear as a list on the main tracks page, and can be clicked on, and immediately, the midi file begins playing at the point that is described.

thanks for your comments - i tried in the group playing to simulate that collective improvisation thing where all 'players' re-act to each other. i sometimes do this by re-recording each of the parts a number of times, so that there is a better chance of being able to re-act to the other 'players'. i can't remeber if i did this when i recorded this file originally. you are also right that the bass player could have stayed out of the extreme treble range of the instrument - i can't remember which bass patch i used originally.

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