Yeh.. there's Jazz and then there's "Jazz".. Jazz in a band like David Letterman's Tonight Show band.. I forget the guy's name now.. he has a bald head and wears sun-glasses all the time and reminds me of Fozzie The Bear. :cool:

Anyway.. that's what I consider to be "formal Jazz".. this is more than likely what you were taught at Berkeley. Then there is Jazz like Hendrix, Vai, Satriani, and myself play.. we all just play music and then someone comes along and decides that we need to fit into a box/category. We don't conform to anything in particular so we get labelled with the broad term of Jazz.. or even better.. hehe.. Progressive Jazz.. are we really Jazz musicians in the "formal" sense of the term? HECK NO!! However, what else would you define as us being? :) Blues? Rock'n'roll? Haha.. all very broad and generally non-descript genres. :p