Really the Blues

Milton Mezzrow

Published by RANDOM HOUSE, 1946

About this Item

3rd printing. No dust jacket, moderate wear to grey cloth boards are soiled, age-toned, binding sound, internally clean. Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard WolfeRandom House, 1946 - Clarinetists - 388 pages"This is the damnedest book. Call it an authentic human document. Call it the odd Odyssey of an old-time jail-happy jazzman who spiked beer for Al Capone, smoked opium with the Purple Gang, peddled marihuana in Harlem (the law got him for that, too), played the clarinet in dives high and low, married across the color line, and today heads a jazz record company! Say that it's written in rich, racy American idiom, packed with the raw excitement you get from any surreptitious glimpse of things never meant to be seen. Say that, and more, and still you won't have captured the intensity, the sincerity, the depth of feeling that pervade these impassioned pages. Mezzrow and Wolfe collaborated in the truest sense to produce this strange autobiography. Every phrase, every sentence has the beat, the cadence of the wild American music that finally stood between Mezz and utter degradation."--Dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Really the Blues
• Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
• Publication Date: 1946
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Missing
• Weight: 32 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music