I think at the moment Rushad presents the greatest interest to me for improv. It's frequently our limited imagination and technical limitations that prevent their execution. Rushad presents something radically challenging.

You have to get the DVD Chops & Grooves to open our imagination and our techniques.There are videos on Youtube of him alone and working with Darol Anger's Republic of Strings.

But I also have Jeffrey McFarland-Johnson's book Tonic to Chromatic which is totally the opposite to the DVD being extremely theoretical and comprehensive exercises.

I think we need both to get somewhere.