Jon Hendricks for The Wall St Journal

When I was a sprout I listened to rock n roll, but for about the last 15 years I've pretty much listened exclusively to jazz. Not avant garde, back-to-the-audience type of jazz, but melodic jazz that speaks to my uneducated musical brain. And heart. So it was a very nice assignment over the weekend to do a portrait of Jon Hendricks (of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross fame) for the Journal.


Usually I do boring guys in suits for them, though I do get a fair share of opera singers and country western stars and the occasional comedian. But a jazz musician I really love and listen to all the time? It was very cool. Plus, it was in the woodcut look, and I've done a bunch of portraits for them over the past couple of weeks in painted style, so it was a very nice change of pace on that level, too.


OK, enough blather, here's the picture. Look up his music if you're not familiar with it, he's fantastic. And he's still singing at the age of 90.

Here's a link to the article on the WSJ site