Didn't much like his music (didn't play it), but REALLY LIKED THE MAN!

A real renaissance man, he was!. Never met him, but know lots of people in the business who did.

I listened to his first album in 1975, and NEVER, in the following 48 years did I hear a negative word.

Actually thought how neat it would be to get to ride with him on that neat seaplane he had.

A man of substance, appreciated by all, including this old grumpy "jazzer".


Russ