Play It Again Sam...No, Actually, Don't

News of a jazz playng robot from Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/

I don't know much about jazz, but I thought that one of its main attractions is that it has a free-flowing structure, that jazz players will riff and throw things in and just generally experiment? That it was the kind of music robots would be least suited to?

But anyhoo, the real test is, can they create anything on a par with John Coltrane? Ok, so neither could I. But I would enjoy groupies and drugs which would be wasted on robots, no matter how well they can play.