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$6.28The Story
Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to playĀ the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. HeĀ moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels andĀ bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, andĀ playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, andĀ Fats Waller. Really the Blues, the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at theĀ insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe, is the story of anĀ unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, āthe odyssey of an individualist . . .Ā the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was tooĀ busy making money.ā
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Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to playĀ the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. HeĀ moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels andĀ bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, andĀ playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, andĀ Fats Waller. Really the Blues, the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at theĀ insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe, is the story of anĀ unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, āthe odyssey of an individualist . . .Ā the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was tooĀ busy making money.ā
