Thank you for listening John B.  I did a revised version here which is much more comprehensible than the first one.
 
https://soundcloud.com/david-sprouse-76324214/the-last-minutes-of-ancient-sunlight
I studied with Jimmy Giuffre who was quite an avant garde jazzer.  He was one of my main composition teachers.  Thanks for the kind words.

You're quite welcome. I think I've heard of Jimmy Guiffre.  Not everybody can get into Avant garde, but I enjoy it.
 
JB

So a friend of mine suggested I turn this into the new Charlie Brown Christmas song.  haha  This is the new mix of simple sam.  We took out the mud, and took out some of the superfluous things. 
 
https://soundcloud.com/da...214/simplesam-revision

Your band could be named Avant Guardrail.
 
This may not be everyone's (or my)  cup of tea, but at least the cup is square and the handle is on the inside, which is interesting! Best of luck with it, 
 
cheers,
-Tom
 

haha, tom.  Thanks for the listen.  It's actually pretty straight ahead, not that avant garde.  Not really sure what you guys think of as jazz...standards?  This could easily be a dave grusin theme or spyro gyra theme (or charlie brown). :D  The jaw harp I added for fun, it's not spose to be there.

Hi,
Nice job,the kind of leitmotiv reminds me of an old record of John MacLaughlin.

This could be a Primus piece.

David - Even though the genre isn't my cup-o-tea, there are several passages in the second version that I really like a lot. 
 
 

So, I'm not a jazz guy, but I enjoyed listening to it.  I will say though that there was some of the percussion that was definitely too prominent in the mix... at least to my non-jazz ears .

For me the different elements of the percussion all sounded in different spaces, the brushed snare really wet the kick completely dry.  I think you have something quite interesting and a good to listen, it just needs a slightly more coherent, in a jazz way, arrangement. Will keep the furry lugs open for the remix.  Thanks for sharing.