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Alternately, you could not play fast. Any good jazz musician has two things going on when he or she approaching or in a solo: individual style and solo direction.
Individual style is the bulk of what we're talking about here. Playing a lot of really fast notes is something that many players of all instruments do, but only really good players do it because it's a tool of expression. Some soloists don't play tons of notes -- Miles Davis, for instance, could really slow things down and milk every note he played. Others prefer to play very quickly, and that's cool too. To each his own, and while you benefit most by learning from all kinds of players, you don't have to play like them.
Solo direction is what separates someone playing an instrument from someone making music. No matter how fast or slow someone talks, if they don't have anything interesting to say, no one will listen to them. On the other hand, jazz legends are legends precisely because they had some amazing things to say. Good luck learning the language.
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