 Byas became the first tenor saxophone player to fully assimilate the new bebop style in his playing.In 1944 the crew of innovators was joined by Dexter Gordon, a tenor saxophone player from the west coast in New York with the Louis Armstrong band, and a young trumpet player attending the Juilliard School of Music, Miles Davis.Bebop originated as "musicians' music", played by musicians with other money-making gigs who did not care about the commercial potential of the new music.