Sometimes, when in soloing over some changes, it can feel like a short time has passed only to look at the recording and find out that it's been recording for w

Sometimes, when in soloing over some changes, it can feel like a short time has passed only to look at the recording and find out that it's been recording for well over 10 minutes. The opposite can happen too. It's also a little bit different when you're improvising on top of other musicians improvising in a jam setting. Without sounding too eeky like Rupert Sheldrake, I have to say that once in a while, it seems like the "flow states" of all the improvising musicians in a room sort of sync up and beautiful things can happen. It's absolutely wonderful seeing this with extremely proficient improvisers like Pat Martino in his Live at Yoshi's record. Or Allan Holdsworth in All Night Wrong. A single musicians flow state is great, but a bunch of flow states together is magical.