[78-L] Book review request

[Michael Biel]

> From: Bud Black
> How the hell could he claim it was "racist" if he never read it? Bud 
>  
>   
David Weiner wrote:
> He wasn't the only one - Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch refused to read
> the book on the same grounds.  

To them, the very CONCEPT that a (shudder) white musician could be 
considered a jazz performer, let alone an innovator, is a racist 
thought.  I can't think of anything more racist -- and dumb -- than 
their attitudes. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com