then he moved on to copenhagen denmark where he now resides we're lucky enough to continue to hear bob because he comes home at least once a year usually around christmas time to visit some family that he still has here saxophone player archie shepp but going through a lot of different stages he told me and a couple times that i interviewed him as most musicians do that's how they grow that's how they develop he was in a c period for a while but then he started listening to the older players to bury ben webster and ben webster and players from that era so i think now you hear a combination of the two you hear th it's an american instrument and it was made in one thousand thirty five and it's got this kind of our deco engraving on the bell here and the look the thing about this is it's got a picture of a woman and all these horns have this picture of a woman but on a really good horns the legend has it that most of the horns only have like the woman's head but this is the really good horn show more of the woman and you notice that this horn you can see quite a bit of the woman overtone in the sound and this horn doesn't have that that's why i like a protest because it blends better with the other instruments so the sound kind of goes you know like this way around you know horns just kind of shoot out so i prefer this for but for it's often referred to as a beautiful ballad is something more than that it was written by billy strayhorn as he was undergoing treatment for cancer which ultimately would take his life so  knowing that you can feel and sense more of a a a desperation a sadness maybe a hopelessness in this psalm and i think the interpretation you're going to hear by this young pianist that he found this song to be quite profound and i think it touched an affected him deeply so he devoted that kind of time and energy to offering a very special reading of the son beginning with an extremely elaborate introduction sure this next tune is going to be a quintessential bebop number up tempo hard driving blowing session kind of a tune you're going to hear from everybody all members of the  get to stretch out you can be quite impressed with the young pianist and some of the motifs and devices and effects that he employs in his soul and bob has a just a great straight ahead eh the best thing about coming back to minnesota for me is to see my friends here i'm playing with guys that i basically grew up with specially musically played with billy pearson the bass player since he was a lot of people say all the audiences in europe are great and they're and they are they're good but when you play for an american audience you're on the same wavelength because everybody's been listening to the same american music even if whether it's pop music or what it's all based on blues it's all based on african american music in some way and that's the common language that we all share musically in this country and the perception of that language is found in america when you talk about a quintessential bebop tune you're most likely talking about a tune that's played at a very fast tempo that's based more on harmony melody you don't often hear the melody the theme is generally stated at the beginning of the melody and then soloists improvise and that generally in an a more sophisticated and more variety of ideas based on the chord changes structure of the son being played whether it's a standard or an original but generally you can describe bebop as  fiery high energy although some of sings also are in swing because hell you get a good swing band and i mean they'll just tear up a room just as much as a b pop band would you know  technical difference and generally the song in bebop serves the soloist i think that's that's yes that's a key difference between bebop and some other styles where the song is at the forefront do with most swing musicians they want to make sure their listeners can hear the melody and we'd like to play a ballad now and this is written by a piano player also from denmark yan casper's and he was here with me two years ago and yeah and he very fond of the lonely as monk and billy's dream horn and