Don't be afraid, just play the music.
You've got to learn your instrument.
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.