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Couldn't agree with you more on all except for a couple of points, Rob... In regards to my paying dues, you really should do your homework. Certainly, if playing with the likes of Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Louis Hayes, Frank Wess, and Cedar Walton (to name a few) is any indication, combined with having moved here (NY) and scraping around to do $30 gigs for years (complete with day job)," I think I'm covered in the ""dues"" department. Other than that", all I can do is keep on living and developing. I have something to say, you've just got to develop the ears for it, though I never confessed to having my own sound (yet!). Speaking of distinctive tone and standing out, much props to Eric Alexander, but I KNOW you're not about to tell me that his tone and sound isn't comin' out of George Coleman...food for thought..