Today, Ed (How Am I Doing) Koch’s funeral service is taking place at an upper east side synagogue, presumably with a boatload of tributes. Mine appears below.

Mr. Koch was in the middle of his mayoral reign when I moved to Manhattan in order to try breaking into the music business as a composer/arranger. While he was rescuing the city from the brink of irrelevancy, I was barreling through the streets of midtown Manhattan trying to make a name for…..

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