And John... For me, I would prefer to never have to repeat a style during an evening. So a wide selection of styles, wide enough to offer me a dozen or so in any genre I want, is needed.

Does the audience notice? Probably not consciously, but hopefully there's SOME kind of awareness going on! And, bottom line, it's ME that wants the variety more than their needs, in the end! My goal is to convince MYSELF that I'm playing with a real rhythm section, and one thing a real rhythm section will do is never play two tunes the exact same way. In fact, a real rhythm section will rarely play the SAME tune the exact same way twice!