And the train crashed!

Wait…. come again?

What train?  When?  Who was on it?  Where?  Why?

You may have heard that you should tell a story when you improvise on saxophone.

So you shouldn’t start your saxophone solo with a crazy complicated statement that leaves a lot of questions or doesn’t make sense.

The audience needs to relate to what you’re saying.   So start off simple and build.

If you take an idea and add it, change it, then make it more complex, that will make sense if it’s related to what you ‘said’ earlier through your saxophone.

One reason that people love when you include quotes from other songs in your solo is that it is something they understand, something familiar.

If they recognize it, then you have something in common with the audience.

Using an idea and revisiting it later in your solo does a similar thing, it keeps the listener with you as you improvise and tell your story.