Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.
I always believed in being myself.
Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.