Really the Blues Really the Blues

Really the Blues

Mezz Mezzrow and Others
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Publisher Description

Hailed as an “American counter-culture classic, this “funny” and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. 
 
Really the Blues—the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe—is the story of an unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, “the odyssey of an individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was too busy making money.”

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2016
February 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.9
MB

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