My Dad Is My Hero. He's 85

My Dad Was The District Attorney Of New Orleans For About 30 Years. And When He Opened His Campaign Headquarters Back In The Early '70s, When I Was 5 Years Old, My Mother Wanted Me To Play The National Anthem. And They Got An Upright Piano On The Back Of A Flatbed Truck And I Played It.

'the Christmas Song,' By Nat King Cole, Is Not Only A Masterful Performance; To Me It Just Sounds Like The Holidays. I've Never Sung It, Because Nat's Version Is So Perfect. I Gotta Leave It Alone.

Well, My Dad Was The District Attorney Of New Orleans For About 30 Years.

We Have Been Working With Habitat For Humanity And We Have Built Eighty Homes, 80% Of Which Are Being Lived In By New Orleans' Musicians. It Is Called The Musicians' Village And At The Center Is The Ellis Marsalis Center For Music.

I Struggle Every Day With Trying To Be A Better Dad, A Better Husband, Better Musician, Better Artist. It Consumes Me, And I Don't See An End In Sight.