Really The Blues

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Mezz Mezzrow was a white Jewish boy who learnt how to play saxophone while he was in reformatory school. He was one of the first white musicians to dedicate himself to jazz (as a saxophonist, a manager for Louis Armstrong, owning his own record label and he was also one of jazz's most famous drug dealers) and crossed the racial divide in 1920's America to make himself part of black culture. In Really the Blues he describes the underworld of 1920's and 30's America, from New York to Chicago and New Orleans. Mezzrow captures the atmosphere of the brothels, bars and honky-tonks, as well as the o.;Cover; Praise; Title Page; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; BOOK ONE (1899-1923) : A Nothin' but a Child; 1 : Don't Cry, Ma; 2 : Not Too Far Tangent; 3 : The Band House, The Band House; 4 : Quit Foolin' with That Comb; BOOK TWO (1923-1928) : Chicago, Chicago; 5 : They found the Body in a Ditch; 6 : Them First Kicks Are a Killer; 7 : Tea Don't Do You That Way; 8 : Got the Heebies, Got the Jeebies; 9 : Forgottenest Man in Town; BOOK THREE (1928-1935) : The Big Apple; 10 : If You Can't Make Money; 11 : Vo-do-de-o and a Minsky Pizzicato; 12 : Tell a Green Man Something.