Title: A Brain-Expanding Eye-Opener
Product review: Joy to the world! Martha Bayles has agreed to be an advisor to the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (of which I am acting chairman). Martha's book, HOLE IN OUR SOUL, was one of the brain-expanding eye-openers in my lifelong reading and education about American jazz, its assorted progeny, and the protean capacities of the American culture. It's a great book and a reflection of Martha Bayles's terrific intelligence, wit, aesthetic cunning, originality, and best of all for present purposes: the ability to get all this "stuff" into her writing. I'm prepared to bet all of Chevy Chase (my home town) that OFF WHITE, her evocatively titled book-to-come, will open eyes everywhere. Stay alert for its appearance.
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