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.