Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.
I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).
Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.