Actually, getting it to sound 'right' is 90% of the problem. Take the bass lines for instance: you can have a 100% technically correct line, but . . .

• It's hard to make a synthetic bass sound that sounds like the real thing, especially a doghouse (the big, upright bass you see a lot in jazz).
• If you are dead on the beat, you sound flat. To swing, you have to play around with the time a bit. (I can't seem to get my current model to swing.) I think it has something to do with anticipating beats 2 and 4 by a smidgeon, but probably more to do with articulation (also hard to do electronically)
• Ad libbing forever is possible--there's a book by Jerry Coker called 'Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor', where he analyzes thousands of jazz tunes and comes up with 14 to 20 'elements' that make up the vocabulary of jazz. BUT, you program a tune like this, you get . . . the sound of a computer pretending to play jazz. Again, rhythm, articulation, and just plain horse sense are hard to program . . . even in Perl ;-)

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