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Turner painted everyday, almost all

day long. He would always have his

favorite music––jazz––playing on the

radio. He loved to listen to Miles,

Coltrane and Gillespie. He loved jazz

so much.

I (Mercer) would say to him teasingly,

“Why don’t you get a guitar (he always

said he played) and present your own

music?”

Andrew would look at me, tongue in
“

cheek, and say,

I’ve just put the guitar back into the Abstraction 10 by Andrew Turner.

closet having convinced myself I am not Wes

Montgomery, Richie Havens or Feliciano.

Tose guys could take a guitar and paint a

picture with it. So I’ll just take my paints

and see if I can sing you a song.

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