Thanks for the listen and comments.

Scott..
This is a solo as it might be played in the middle of a long version of Summertime. After the Flute played the melody real pretty and exact at the beginning of the song and then slowly worked into this very complex solo and then back to the exact melody again. It might have appeared to you to be one continuous long phrase but notice how (within the solo) I have many of the melody notes exactly where they should be. At times I will have a thirty or forty note run and end exactly on the melody note which is very difficult. You have to be able to feel (up front) where a cluster of fast notes is going to end. You can hear that I am playing Summertime.. (within all the rapid notes the phrasing and song melody are recognizable) unlike so many solos that are just scales on the chords and often sound the same no matter what song is being played. I had to spend a lot of time studying the song structure and melody before I could play this improvised solo. Also all five fingers must be able to play equally well or the speed, perfection and technique of this solo cannot be achieved.

As for breathing.. my personal approach is not to try to imitate a real flute player by including space for breathing but to utilize the keyboard opportunities of the single note flute instrument. In this instance I am a keyboard Flute player.

I really do appreciate your comments but wanted to explain my approach to what I was trying to accomplish with this Flute solo.

Jerry