Really the Blues

by Bernard Wolfe, Mezz Mezzrow, Mezz and Bernard Wolfe Mezzrow

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590179455
• ISBN13: 9781590179451
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 8.0"