Good point there Sean.
Some other things that might help are use of dynamics. Those can really be a big factor in your playing, taking it from bland to awesome. It seems like you have a handle on using space as well, as to not clutter up things too much with your playing. It does sound like you are just kinda playing through scales up and down alot of the time, so what I always say is to use alot of arpeggiated licks as well as the scalular ones. My teacher used to do this thing where he would play a chord, and then play first a corresponding scale over it, and then an arpeggio outlining the chord (which would be either a 7th, 9th, 11th or 13th) and would say “Ok, which one of these sounds more musical to you?”
Also, when improvising, be sure to keep your licks varied as far as phrase lengths go. Don’t play them all kinda at one length. Keep some short, play some long, and so on.
And when playing, be sure to “say” something with your playing. A good thing to do to help with your improvisation, is to listen to the way you talk. Pay attention to how you use words, the range of your voice, how you construct sentences, putting emphasis on important words or parts by talking louder or faster, etc.
I suppose that’s all I can think of now.
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