If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.
Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.