Pork Pie Hat

 
Just in time for Halloween appears a very nice small work by Peter Straub, "Pork Pie Hat", about a jazz saxaphonist and Halloween.  It's from Cemetery Dance Publications.  You see how all this goes together neatly.  

Peter is an ardent jazz fan.  I wrote to him that I thought this project was a bit like mine in "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines"  -- a chance to dwell on wonders discovered long ago.  

Those who do not not need to be told which great musician was called Pork Pie Hat will want the book, of course -- a beautiful vision of an artist at the end and yet in full flower -- and those who don't know will learn.

And of course we all know why a certain style of hat was so called?