I also am not afraid of a challange I encourage it . Besides a scared man never wins. The difference between success and failure is time. Time is the measuring tool we use to find out what we can get out of life. Life is a series of wins and losses.
Art is about enjoyment as well as education.
True art brings out the best in culture ,but also makes us challange ourselves to higher degree of humanity. When you say something should not be compared because the results of the outcome shows someone being on a higher or lower artistic level, that type of statement only creates appathy and ignorance. AS far jazz music goes there is already enough of that. We are both Jazz musicians who play trumpet in the cradle of jazz music the cresent city. The last time I checked Kermit Ruffins' records were in the jazz department of the store .That is enough simularities to find grounds for comparison.