Unlike many of his pre-bop contemporaries, he hungrily absorbed the new harmonies of younger bop musicians like Dizzy Gillespie.

When Jackie McLean - one of the last of the bop musicians to directly follow Charlie Parker - is on, he's a furnace.

Even "Round Midnight," his 1986 film on an alienated bop musician, seemed remote and grim textured.

Jackie McLean is one of the last of the bop musicians to follow Charlie Parker directly.

Mr. Lalama, a pillowy-toned saxophonist, is more convoluted in his playing; his improvisations wander, though not very deeply, into territory usually avoided by bop musicians.

The bop musicians advanced these techniques with a more freewheeling, intricate and often arcane approach.

Then here came a gang of young bop musicians carrying their instruments out of cars.

(See also List of Hard bop musicians)

In New York, Jones regularly listened to leading bop musicians, and was inspired to master the new style.

He collected a band including some of the leading bop musicians in Scandinavia.