<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I'm not sure we all improvised very well as teenagers either; as a youth, I was too timid to take many chances. I am sure the current crop of young people are much stronger players than we were at that age. <BR>
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Perhaps normal self doubt and lack of experience makes for inappropriate treatment of songs. We have known these tunes for maybe 40 years longer than they have.<BR>
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Sidebar: the young bands in my area don't swing. Maybe too much rock music in the veins.??<BR>
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Tom Loeb, California<BR>
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