Jamie Aebersold? I'd LOVE to hear that - I live in a Jazz hole down here. They think smooth jazz IS jazz! Wouldn't want to mess up their botox faces by actually SMILING, I guess!

I thought at first read you meant Jamie Cullum... Have you heard him play? There's an outstanding live DVD of a concert at Blenheim Palace in England out on Verve Records. Watch it if you can... I truly believe none of his CD's has captured more than 50% of what he can do. The boy can smoke!

Kingfrog... yes that certainly IS a who's who of great arrangers and players. BUT... I'm sorry, but those pre-canned styles are merely the SUGGESTION of those great talents. The repetition of tiny loops is NOT a technique that any of them have pursued until today's more hiphop ventures they've tried. You are actually calling up these guys for a (pretty average, IMO) four bar loop, not to arrange a whole song. I had the great pleasure of actually doing a session with Gadd, Gale, and the great Richard Tee, back in the eighties. Trust me... it did NOT sound REMOTELY like an arranger!

God is in the details...