I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
