Mezz Mezzrow. Milton Mesirow, better known as Mezz Mezzrow (9 November –5 August ) was a Jewish American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois. Mezzrow is well known for organizing and financing historic recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. Mezzrow also recorded a number of times with Bechet and. Really the Blues is part quixotic adventure novel, part inside-scoop Mezzrow’s voice is funny, impulsive, full of itself and often spectacularly www.doorway.ruing to “Mezz” is tremendous fun the book’s true literary inheritance is its style one of the great, flawed, jubilant, jive-talking characters of American literature.” —Martin Riker, The Wall Street Journal/5(). · Performer(s): «Mezz Mezzrow»«Really the Blues»Audio: Very Hq - CD Quality Sound -- MP3 KbpsAlbum: «Mezz Mezzrow Sidney Bechet Friends» by «M.
Mezz Mezzrow was born in , and organised (and played in) some of the most famous recording sessions of the 's and 40's. He was jailed in for possession of marijuana and died in Bernard Wolfe was a journalist who met Mezz Mezzrow in the 's and helped him to write his autobiography. On Mezz Mezzrow. Ma. Ben Ratliff. On New Year's Day of , not long after Random House published Mezz Mezzrow's memoir, Really the Blues, there took place at Town Hall a kind of musical-revue version of his life. "Mr. Mezzrow himself served as the narrator," reported The New York Times the following day. About the Author. Mezz Mezzrow () was born Milton Mesirow in Chicago to a Jewish family "as respectable as Sunday morning." As a teenager, however, he was sent to Pontiac Reformatory for stealing a car; there he learned to play the saxophone and decided to devote his life to the blues.
Milton Mesirow, better known as Mezz Mezzrow, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois. He is remembered for organizing and financing recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. He recorded with Bechet as well and briefly acted as manager for Louis Armstrong. Mezzrow is equally known as a colorful character, as portrayed in his autobiography, Really the Blues, co-written with Bernard Wolfe and published in 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.”. The story of Milton Mezzrow—a white kid who fell in love with black culture. First published in , Really the Blues was a rousing wake-up call to alienated young whites to explore the world of jazz, the first music America could call its own. Told in the jive lingo of the underground's inner circle, this classic is an unforgettable chronicle of street life, smoky clubs, and roadhouse dances.
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