charlie parker, one of the most important improvisors in jazz, created melodies which were so strong which influenced so many people that they've become cliches of the language. for example, [plays sample] you would never want to play a whole improvisation with that, with that one idea, and in fact, most improvisations i play don't have that idea in them, but they may make reference in some way to that idea. the language of jazz is not just melodic cliches, it's also the harmonies that we use in jazz and the way the melodies that we use relate to the harmonies. for example, if i kind of outline a certain chord [ascending notes of a chord played individually] that chord wants to go somewhere else. it wants to go here. [descending notes of the same chord] now, if i'm going to improvise over those chords, i'm going to try to create a melody which fits with those harmonies. so you have to have not only a knowledge of the language, a sensitivity to what everyone else is playing, but also a sense of where you are, where you've been, and where you're going. that's tough. it's hard, but it a

charlie beck, unlike daryl gates who was bill parker's driver that bill parker's adjutant and was on the ritchie chief, charlie beck was a real cop, a gang cop in pico union, in south bureau, so he was a hard nosed guy. he had a partner literally die in his arms in a crowd of people outside of jordan towns, surrounding him and his partner and started shouting at him, why are you trying to help him, why don't you help the black guy over there who had run into the car when officer who got killed was in the car. those worse herein events for him. .. >> not tearing it down by arresting everybody in sight. >> so why, what's caused the lack of transparency? what's caused the change in your mind? >> so in my mind, i think there are, there were 300 million guns in america. the cops are scared. beck makes a distinction between somebody who's just kind of a ruthless cop and shoots somebody for really no reason and a cop who comes upon a scene and because he doesn't have what it takes to be a cop, like i wouldn't have what it takes to be a cop, to assess that situation and do, use the right tact