Has anyone read the article by Reno De Stefano in the May 2001 issue
of 'Just Jazz Guitar' called: "Jazz Improvisation: Antecedent-
Consequent Phrases"?
It deals with some very basic bebop ideas, but he presents it in a
way that I think is very digestible. Most other presentations of
these ideas that I have seen are useful in analyzing a phrase after
the fact (e.g. guide tones and forward motion), but in this article
he gives a fairly simple recipe for formulating good bebop lines.
For those who missed it, I created a little summary here:
Enjoy,
-Dan
