Jazz Ballad

Hi Fred,

This is nice, really nice. I had it playing in Win Med Player with repeat while I read mail, but before that I had to check it out in Composer to make sure it was a .mid file. Midi just doesn't have such living presence, as RCA used to say about Orthophonic High Fidelity. I still don't know how you did it, entirely. You've done a lot of work with the pedal and must have spent hours working on note velocity, attack and release. But it was worth it. This is a lovely arrangement and it does, indeed, sound very live. I still can't figure out how you got vibrato from the GM muted trumpet. Did you edit the preset in Vienna or something? Nice going, anyhow. Ditto on the pitch bends, with which I've still had nothing but disaster.

Why does "it was 3:00 a.m. and the police chased us" ring such a bell?

best to you and Patsy,
mgj