I found that as I worked personally on bebop scales, bop lines from the masters, enclosures, and variants of the general bebop language it gave my improvising a lot more fluidity to spurt out 8th and 16th note lines. I really think the benefits from learning bebop such as muscle memory will help build "cartilage" connecting powerful melodic statements and empty parts of your solos you didn't want to be there.
If you want a good place to start the David Baker Book on the Bebop scales is excellent! Jerry Bergonzi also has a fantastic volume out calledthe "jazz line" I think. I also recommend transcribing Bird/Bud Powell/Diz/Clifford Brown/Fats Navarro/Kenny Dorham etc etc etc and assimilating a lot of their "power/finesse" with each players improvisational dexterity. I especially love the OmniBook and Clifford Brown complete transcription book. Start at the source with Bird in my opinion! It just doesn't get any better.
Sorry for the ramblings, I hope it helps!
Best,
Trent
www.trentaustin.com (new improv. site coming soon!)