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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:42:24 -0400
From: Alex Wolfson
Subject: Re: improv vs repeating solos

"glen~lbany.net" wrote:
> >
> There's no doubt that improvising is the way this music should be played.
The only thing I think of when I play a riff is which note I'm going to
start on, which is usually one the notes of the
> chord of the moment. After that, I try to play something I've never played
before. I migjht think 3 or 4 notes in advance, that's all. But sometimes I
get lazy and fall back on a stock riff (we're
> all sinners here; Little Walter plays the same octave riff in "Blues with
a Feeling," and "Blue Light"), but I never repeat a solo.
> Still, Clarke and Mingus shouldn't have dressed these guys down onstage-
that's bad showmanship, which IMO is worse.
>

AT a gig last spring I played a solo on "It Makes No Difference", the
old Band tune. The keyboard player leaned back after the song and said,
"Really Good Solo". This guy is a top shelf musician who doesn;t often
hand out compliments like this. I was really pleased with myself.
Trouble is after the solo was done I couldn't remember a damn thing
about what I had played. Still can't.