If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don’t think so much like that.
You have to react to what’s around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that’s what we face when we’re dealing with improvisation.
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.
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