Thanks for the props everyone.  I appreciate it very much.  
 
@FreddyJ, the cymbals were from Superior Drummer.  David Haynes, who did the "finger drumming" on an electronic drum pad, constructs custom kits using different pieces from a variety of ToonTrack's sample libraries.  The downside is that when he creates custom kits the sampled room mic channel(s) is not available.  I had to create the sound of overheads and a drum room using a variety of early reflection reverbs, etc.  Hopefully I sold the illusion of an acoustic drum kit reasonably well.
 
Cheers,
J

 
Excellent!
 
You would have qualified for the Northsea Jazz Festival with your Material!
 ( http://www.youtube.com/user/northseajazz )
 
Greetings from Amsterdam (the other center of the universe...)
 

Just because we can.  I like that!!  Your tunes always showcase top notch music and musicians.  This one is no different.  

Cool tune. I love fusion. The arrangement is nice and the production sounds good too.

@Noisy Neighbor: I'd love to make some noise in Amsterdam sometime!

Jonas,
 
Sounds great, really liked it until the point it ended abruptly at 3:00 during the sax solo;(  This is really a quite spectacular production and the musicianship is out of this world.  
 
Regards

Really enjoying this tune - like others - especially the sax.
 
Any tips you would care to share on how you recorded (mic. choice and placement) and mixed ( eq and any other considerations) on the saxophone? 

I would love to try live drums on this.  You guys did an excellent job.  Sounds super.
 
Rimshot
 

Loved it. Fine talents there. nicely produced

@Rimshot:  I would have like to have used live drums as well.  I know of several well-known drummers that would have done it for a very reasonable rate (I'm not going to drop names) but renting a studio worthy of their talent would have doubled or tripled the cost of the production.  I got the 11-song project done for about $2k (most of which was paying for drum programming) plus $1K for duplication. Perhaps next time I can get a label to drop the money for studio time.    
 
@tagrufto:  The saxophone was recorded in his home studio which had a large isolation booth.  We used a Groove Tubes GT-66 tube microphone.  His preamp was something cheap and it was a MOTU converter box.
 
On the mix end of things I used the UAD Studer A800 plugin (using a variation of the "Classic Rock -15IPS 250 preset), the UAD LA2A compressor in compress mode and the UAD Lexicon 224 using the PercPlate algorithm.  It was panned 12% to the right.