Just my thoughts on your tune
i am just checking out your tune now, and i think it's a great first attempt. here are some things i would do differently...
1.) since you're playing with a rhythm section, there's no reason to keep the piano so restricted playing the same root position chords the whole time...try and get it in the upper register with some nice occassional stabs.
2.) your "horn hits" shouldn't be right on the beats each time...this takes away the swing. try putting them on the "&'s" and you'll hear a big difference. also included in this category would be anticipation. jazz is a very "forward motion" oriented music which means that it is common for hits (on the next chord) to occur before they are "written" in the progression. for example in your tune, try playing the ebm7 chord on the & of beat 4 while technically still on the bb7alt. this is a common piano comping technique as well.
if you transcibe guys alot of times, you'll see that they'll be playing on the next chord change while still technically on the previous one just to create that anticipated movement.
other than that, it sounds pretty good to me! maybe you could add a bridge or something to vary it up in the middle.
hope that helps
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