It's A Nice Feeling To Go Out

Eating Is One Of The Great Beauties In Life. One Of My Favorite Recreations... Eating With Friends, The Service, The Ambience.

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.

I've Got The Public. I Don't Care About The Critics. I Did At One Time. I Don't Any More. I Did When I Needed Compliments. But If You Get A Lot Of Compliments, You Don't Need A Critic To Tell You, 'this Should Be Done Another Way.'

Some People Try To Paint In My Style. Some Simply Sell Pirated Copies Of My Work. Some Claim To Be My Publisher Or Agent Or Even My Exclusive Representative, When They Are Not.

I Always Stayed In Tune With My Own Ambitions And Attitudes And I'm Still My Intractable Old Self, For Better Or Worse.