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Originally Posted by gridjam  If someone is getting ALL of their vocabulary from their transcriptions and not practicing and playing in a way that is creative and free they can end up getting stuck in clone land. I see and hear that a lot! I remember being at the old Birdland (uptown) and hearing a guy play a solo (on the gig) I had just been lifting-note for note, adding nothing of his own voice to it- I got so mad and left. |
I remember a few years ago in a solo performance class I was taking in college, a sax player got up to play his song and played a memorized lift of a very famous sax solo (I can't remember which tune it was) and he seemed to act like it was his own solo. The teacher, who is also a sax player reamed him for it. I don't think he did it again.
I can understand quoting solos a bit when you play, but outright repeating them as your own is pretty lame.