I Hold Doors Open For All The

It Has Been Difficult To Hold Onto Many Paintings But I Have Retained A Few.

Ive Zeroed In On What You Would Call Action And Excellence... Everybody Who Does Anything To Try To Succeed Has To Give The Best Of Themselves, And Art Has Made Me Pull The Best Out Of Myself.

But 'playboy' Was Liberating. I Was Drawn To It And Went For It Full Throttle.

I Can Easily Ignore My Detractors And Feel The People Who Respond Favorably.

It Has Been Difficult To Hold Onto Many Paintings But I Have Retained A Few. Possibly The Current Favorite Is Titled 'big Band' Completed In 2005. It Measures 13 Feet X 9 Feet. It Has 18 Nearly Life Size Recognizable Portraits Of The Biggest Jazz Stars That I Knew And Saw Perform In The 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s And Includes Wynton Marsalis.