You've Got To Learn Your Instrument.

I Don't Care Who Likes It Or Buys It. Because If You Use That Criterion, Mozart Would Never Have Written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker Would Have Never Played Anything But Swing Music.

You've Got To Learn Your Instrument. Then, You Practice, Practice, Practice. And Then, When You Finally Get Up There On The Bandstand, Forget All That And Just Wail.

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.

If You Don't Live It, It Won't Come Out Your Horn.

It's Just Music. It's Playing Clean And Looking For The Pretty Notes.