“Black Angels”(for Ornette Coleman) ,2008, watercolor/gouache, 15”-14”. I have had the luck and pleasure to see Ornette perform a few times, possibly five or six. The first was in the early seventies on the lower East Side at “Slugs” a club where trumpeter Lee Morgan was later shot by his girlfriend. The other concerts were more formal some being in colleges or concert halls. His music, traditional jazz or electric, always made me feel uplifted. My kind of music and my kind of visual art. A black angel’s.