Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
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If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.