“I am not like the great masters that spent months or even years on their work. When I was younger, I felt a bit less than the academic painters because my approach is so different. Even though I went to art school, I like to be around people from the street. During the eighties I hung around with graffiti artists. I liked the way they express themselves. I started to paint faster and faster with traditional art and paint, that’s why I can do live action painting on jazz festivals. The way “Bird” played his music, inspired me as much as his “sound”, his ability to improvise and still hitting the notes right and fast is quite frankly unique and astonishing.”

Charlie "Bird" Parker, born on August 29, 1920, and passing away on March 12, 1955, was an influential American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is widely considered one of the most significant and influential musicians in the history of jazz and one of the greatest saxophonists of all time.