I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

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.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

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.