I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”
“I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.”