Hi Tot_Ou_tard,

I know what you mean. There is a lot of lame Smooth Jazz out there these days. It's getting to the point where I don't like listening to this format anymore because it sounds like the same musicians on nearly every song, and nobody seems to be doing anything exciting or original within this format.

Some of my own tunes turned out this way for better or worse, I admit. I'm not really a Jazz player in the pure sense. I like Blues and I'm a constant student of Jazz playing so I'm always trying to incorporate more of that stuff in my own playing.

I really like some of those artists you mentioned like DJango, Miles Davis, Jim Hall. I also like Wes Montgomery. I've always been a big Pat Metheny fan as well and we was influenced quite a bit by Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery.

Thanks, -- Jim