In the Early $1940$s$,$ a number of innovative and daring jazz musicians began experimenting with the music to find a new style. This music would come to be known by its onomatopoeic description: bebop. Charlie Parker was one of the primary innovators of this new jazz style. To hear a great example of this new approach, listen now to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, the two greatest innovators of bebop, playing Koko, Charlie Parker, alto saxophone $($as$)$; Dizzy Gillespie trumpet $($tp$),$ Dizzy Gillespie piano $($p$)$; Curly Russell, bass $($b$)$; and Max Roach, drums $($d$)$; and address the following questions:

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$$What is your impression of this piece? How do these bebop soloists differ from the swing soloists that you have heard? Does the bebop ensemble treat or arrange the melody differently from the swing big band arrangements $($of melody$)$ that you have heard? If so$,$ How? Generally speaking, this band would have performed for what type of audience?