LOL my old saxophone teacher who also ended up being my professor of saxophone in college and director of our jazz ensemble used to always tell us to quit sound like a white hyper swing band, (he is white). I'm personally into free jazz but if had to chose from the 2 it would definately be bop.

I play Bebop solos on swing tunes. Bebop heads (melodies) are too hard to sell on a commercial gig. When you play the melody of one of the standard swing tunes, people may have heard it before and have a better idea of what you are doing when you improvise. Bird's original tunes were sometimes just standard swing tune chord changes and form with his own new melody added. I wonder if someone can be an artist and an entertainer at the same time? I think I try to because I want to make money for playing...........Kelsey