The Rifftides staff is back at home base following a transcontinental flight and a drive through the snowy Cascade mountains. Posting from New York a few nights ago about the ASCAP Deems Taylor bash, in my bleary-headed condition at 2:30 a.m. I forgot to mention this:
My thirty-second oration wound up with, “I wish that Desmond were here because, as his friend the guitarist Jim Hall has often said, Paul would have been a great old man.”
Somewhere in the hall, a woman sighed. Desmond would have loved that.