When I'm playing the horn, I always implicitly remember the infamous story about Trane claiming to Miles Davis that he took overly long solos because he didn't know how to end them (and Davis asked him "have you tried to take the horn out of your mouth?").
I'm pretty good at taking the horn out of my mouth, and I also have some patterns for marking the end of my solo to help the next soloist prepare to take their turn (usually do a diminuendo or quote the last phrase of the head, or both).
But in the worst case, simply taking the horn out of my mouth is sufficient to end the solo.
But when I'm on the bass, it's a whole different problem. I can't stop playing because I'm the time keeper — I need to make it clear where the solo ends and cleanly transition back to comping. That's a whole different skill to practice — quite a bit more involved than taking my horn out of my mouth. ;)
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