I Turned "The Lick" Into An Awesome Jazz Solo

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So, there's a well-known musical phrase that jazz musicians have dubbed "the lick". People start noticing that the lick was showing up everywhere in the vocabulary of the great jazz musicians. So, there are compilation videos, memes, and fanfare around using and playing the lick.
But what happens after you go about actually learning it? How do you go about turning a lick like this into actual jazz improvisation?
Let's start going over some strategies.
🕒CHAPTERS🕒
00:00 Intro
00:28 What is "The Lick"?
01:19 What is "Recomposition"?
01:40 Tool #1
04:48 Tool #2
05:59 Tool #3
07:22 The huge important step to bridge the gap
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[@makanig]

Thanks!

[@Learnjazzstandards]

You're most welcome!

[@liselachance7321]

Very interesting, thank you!

[@Learnjazzstandards]

My pleasure!

[@tony3313]

Thank you. Very insightful.

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful

[@elijahfreeman6940]

Homeboy out here giving out the bag 👀

[@merrill-el-richmond8649]

made this very clear. thanks!

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Great to hear! Thanks

[@louisthompson1020]

Very nice Brent, learning and utilizing a lick when creating your solo allows you to tell your story.

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Hope you’re doing well Louis!

[@Alan-zi2rs]

Great video and nice playing
Thanks 👌👍😎🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Many thanks!!

[@lucasmoreira1820]

Good job man

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Thanks, bro!

[@MixolydianMode]

Good lesson, thank you.

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Glad you liked it!

[@lifelemonswhenlifegivesule9209]

Very well explained! Thank you

[@suzannahardman207]

Wonderfully musical! Thank you so much for this tutorial.

[@Learnjazzstandards]

You're very welcome!

[@xane7045]

Fun video!

[@gtech12bass]

Great lesson, thanks! That guitar sounds awesome. Who makes it? I don’t recognize the brand.

[@Learnjazzstandards]

Thank you! The guitar is a Victor Baker. You can find his products here: www.victorbakerguitars.com/NYCLuthier/

[@codetech5598]

A variation of "The Lick" is used as the "alien communication tones" in the movie *"Close Encounters of the Third Kind".*

[@garethevans2650]

OMG how did I not spot that? 40yrs ago I had to play that on keyboards for a comedy sketch intro

[@fenegroni]

A clearer way to indicate that the lick was using the Dorian mode would be to note that A is the fifth of the Dmin7 chord, and in the Dorian mode of C Major, A serves as the fifth, which begins from D.
However, when you mention "Starting from a different note in the Dorian mode," you're actually referring to using a different mode. The scale remains C Major, but you change the root to another note within that scale. For instance, the Lydian mode of C Major starts on F, as shown in your second example.
All notes in all modes of the C Major scale use the same notes: the note you start from though do make it a different scale mode.
The original lick, which starts from A and walks up to the D, therefore not strictly a chord, to me sounds like the Aeolian mode of C major, aka A Minor. Not sure that it was the right place for this lick.

[@kofblz]

The notes of that lick seem more A Dorian to me. Without the F, I wouldn't think D Dorian, but that's what makes it sound jazzy, aka, ambiguous.