Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe

Really the Blues

Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe

464 pages first pub 1946 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative slow-paced
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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 h...

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