Improv Zones

So with the recording of the standards & practices album a little over a week away, I've decided to take a different approach with the music. Since we've been a duo, the tunes that we write and put together always sounds like part of something more. They sound as if they are not complete on their own a lit of the time, but the songs are very fun to play over. I've always been interested in getting away from soloing over changes, and this duo has helped me do that. But also I like the idea of playing one continuous set of music, one that would be made up of more songs and ideas than anything we'd played before. The solution is the idea of using songs as parameters for improvisation, and using imrov as a way to bridge the gap between all of these seperate ideas. This way, it should create new challenges in navigating the material, and will also hopefully allow great flexability in the order and makeup of the songs. For the CD, I'd like to play one set, but have track marks to break up the music, so listeners have an easy way to navigate it. Thats one thing I hate is when its just one long track. Like Orthrelm's "OV", its an amazing record---sometimes I wish there were track marks--just to make it more user-friendly. Maybe thats missing the point, but at the end of the day--it just increases the usability...or something like that!