Reminds me of a story John Faddis once told me about Coltrane. Supposedly after a show an audience member had transcribed Coltrane’s solos and was excited to show the music and ask about his inspirations, Coltrane takes one look at the sheets and goes ‘Nah man, I can’t play that,’ and walks away. The man goes to leave and the pianist runs up and says not to worry, John is usually too messed up to know where he’s at much less what he’s playing.

Take that with a grain of salt though, only thing I’ve known jazz musicians to be better at anyone else at other than improvisation is telling tall tales. Especially over drinks.