Kenny's feedback.

At first I was pleased with how my meeting with Kenny went, though having digested what he said, I have even more ideas now than I did in the first place!

My initial idea was to take three distinct artists - esbjorn svensson, Bill Evans and Thelonius Monk, for example, and reharmonize hymns in their styles.

Kenny asked why hymns, and I couldn't really give a good answer.  Any typical pop song would do, I suppose.

He said that I wouldn't have to go as in depth as I'd think for each artist - perhaps just getting the main aspects of their harmony together would be good enough.  He also mentioned a good point about how these players playing goes further than their harmony - their use of rhythm, their solos, the band they play with (even though I'd be focusing on solo piano instruments).
I was pleased at how knowledgable he was at the subjects I'm thinking about.  He seems to be an accomplished keyboard player with a great deal of knowledge over various jazz artists, which is very helpful for me.

My second and what I thought most interesting idea was to create a small EP of tracks reharmonized in the specific style of one artist.  The catch would be that the chosen tracks would be tracks that were written after the artist died.  I'd learn the styles of the recording artists so in depth that upon first listen, it would seem as if the artist I'd chosen were playing the recorded track, even though it would have been physically impossible for them to have done so.

Kenny's feedback for the last idea mostly applied to this one too.  I said that it would probably too adventurous to do for an honours project - I've looked up pages online about an artist's style, and the kind of detail I'd be looking to go into is more akin to that of a master's degree in jazz.  Kenny said that I could give it a good bash and wouldn't worry about that though, so that's encouraging.  Not entirely sure I'd be able to actually do it at the level I'm at just now, though.

He gave me many more ideas - like how to discover what about an artists makes his own style his own style?

He also made me think about gospel playing more - I mentioned that I couldn't really do a project based on gospel music because I'm not as experienced in it as I'd like to be, and especially couldn't do organ based music (which I'd love to do) because I don't have and have never played a real B3/C3 - all I have is a Nord Electro.  Again though, he questioned why that would be a problem and said that if I really wanted to do a project on gospel i could.  He also mentioned the idea of me playing some of the many organs he owns if I absolutely needed to!  The prospect of that excited me.  Though I don't think it'd be a good idea to do an honours project just because it meant I'd get to play a real organ...

Decisions decisions.  I'm pretty confused now but will hopefully have a EUREKA moment soon.

Hopefully.