Paul Desmond had political convictions. He occasionally indicated but
rarely went on at length about them. Iola Brubeck knows that and called our attention to an opinion piece by Chan Lowe, and his accompanying editorial cartoon, in today’s Florida Sun Sentinel. Here’s one line:
If the note wasn’t needed, he didn’t play it. He played silence. I say “played,†because his silences could be as eloquent and pregnant with meaning as his bare-bones riffs.
To see how that relates to the Sun Sentinel’s take on one of the day’s major news stories, follow this link.