Don't Play The Saxophone. Let It Play

Bop Is No Love-child Of Jazz.

I'd Been Getting Bored With The Stereotyped Changes (harmonies) That Were Being Used All The Time. I Found That By Using The Higher Intervals Of A Chord As A Melody Line And Backing Them With Appropriately Related Changes I Could Play The Thing I'd Been Hearing. I Came Alive.

I Look At Melody As Rhythm.

It's Just Music. It's Trying To Play Clean And Looking For The Pretty Notes. The Beat In A Bop Band Is With The Music, Against It, Behind It. It Pushes It. It Helps It. Help Is The Big Thing. It Has No Continuity Of Beat, No Steady Chug-chug. Jazz Has, And That's Why Bop Is More Flexible.

You've Got To Learn Your Instrument.