Q: sometimes when i analyze a solo over a jazz standard i get too familiar with it and start to get convinced that the solo is just part of the song, it's the logical continuation of it. and then i have trouble trying to improvise over the piece myself, because 1. I feel compelled to just play the solo I analyzed, and 2. it's hard to improvise when i'm trying to AVOID playing the other thing. do you have any tips to break out of this?
A: sure. however far out you thought you were supposed to go, just go 100 times further out. for example, the box you are stuck inside is sort of magnetic. in order to get out, you have to actually fling so far away that the magnet can't get you. for example, here's what you might do: as soon as the solo section starts, don't even play anything. as soon as the audience (or, you) starts to believe that you actually might not play anything, then you may begin playing, but play actually a different song, in a different key, at a different tempo. enjoy. The hidden truth here is that you will actually slip back nicely into what the backing song moves you to do, but, unfortunately this only works if you are truly not expecting it. so what i'd suggest is to delete these last 2 sentences and then read this all again