I would assume that you have not yet experimented with the latest
version of Band in a Box.   This program is not something most jazz
musicians or even music lovers will get bored with after a few weeks.
I'm attaching a copy of a midi file which I generated with BiaB using
the Jobim/Getz solo option.   The solo generated would make Stan proud
to claim it as his own in my opinion.   

A karaoke player?   I have all of the programs referred to below and
my favorite is still BiaB.   Of course some of the others can be used
to dress up and round out what BiaB does but the "raw" product is not
bad.   

By the way,  listen to the "Body and Soul" attached and if you like it
check out my home page at
 for a couple more
tunes using this style as well as others.   I'd like to hear your
response via email at wizard@communique.net.    Thanks for listening.



On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:36:34 GMT, 102334.12@compuserve.com (Mark
Johnson) wrote:

>jrveazey@inter.CUT_THIS..net.co (J. Richard Veazey) wrote:
>
>>He may be referring to Band in a Box 7.0. I am not familiar with WinJammer
>>but have owned BIAB since version 4.0 and am very pleased with it. The
>>newest features include a melody track and a separate solo track.
>
>Winjammer is an actual sequencer, for creating or massaging MIDI
>files. BintheB is something of a kareoke player, along the lines of
>the old Hammand home organs with their preset rhythms and bossa or
>samba beats, but which can generate MIDI files. There may be some oft
>requested MIDIs which were produced with BintheB, but offhand I can't
>think of any. I think BintheB is probably appropriate for those times
>when you just want to get some ideas about what MIDIs to make with a
>sequencer, playing around with rhythms and solos, sort of getting
>lulled into the repetition and predictably, just like auntie sitting
>down at the Conn over the holidays to play a workmanlike version of
>Hello Dolly, to something of polka beat. If BintheB fans think the
>program is more in the line of Winjammer, Cakewalk or Cubase, I stand
>corrected. But . . That is, if one just wants some light
>entertainment, without a lot of heavy lifting as the saying now goes,
>then I suppose a kareoke machine like this can be fun, even if it must
>wear thin after a few days and weeks (as auntie would if she came by
>for a rendition every day). But if one wants to produce MIDIs that
>don't sound completely canned, I don't see how BintheB could do the
>job.
>
>
>Peace.