![]() Mezz Mezzrow’s rambunctious enthusiasm for jazz and the world it shaped and defined keeps the pages turning.The lost world of the Jazz Age comes alive in these pages, replete with all the Chi-town bounce and streetwise braggadocio that came with the risqué territory.Mezzrow’s love of the music and the ‘bandid’ lifestyle is palpable and infectious, giving his story a novelistic verve. The mighty Mezz was at once the greatest digger, the greatest chronicler, the greatest celebrator of culture, as well as being a principal actor on its main stage and contributor of its most characteristic fragrance-the pungent aroma of burning bush. American counter-culture classic Really the Blues a stylized oral history that anticipates the Beat novel… Really the Blues is part quixotic adventure novel, part inside-scoop…Mezzrow’s voice is funny, impulsive, full of itself and often spectacularly scatological….Listening 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. ![]()
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