- Paperback: 420 pages
- Publisher: Payback Press; New edition edition (15 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 086241959X
- ISBN-13: 978-0862419592
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 659,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The story of the first white kid to fall in love with black culture: Mezz Mezzrow was blowing horn in reform schools, brothels and honky-tonks, dealing pot in the clubs and arcades, and getting drawn into the captivating subculture of the blues long before Mick Jagger started to paint it black.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you love jazz youll love this book. if not,enjoy the fascinating and funny anecdotes about the dirty underworlds of Harlem and Chicago 1910-1945;speakeasys and gangsters, prison life, cannabis and opium, Jim Crow and of course the musicians;louis armstrong, sidney bechet and the rest.. but be warned;you WILL love jazz by the end. mezz's passionate descriptions ensure you can almost hear the music. Persuasive stuff.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book when I was 16 in the swinging sixties and it had a profound effect on me. It was my companion through the jazz clubs of London and sat side by side on my bookshelf with On The Road. I am so happy to have found it once more! This man's sincere love for jazz, his ability to 'cover the waterfront', his belief that music unites humanity, and his total honesty about his life in the jazz world written in the language of the streets which seems surprisingly modern, will have you turning the pages long after you should be tucked up with your cocoa listening to 'Sailing By'. Enjoy!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read this book when I was 14 and lost, or had stolen, my copy. Thankfully I have now, 40 years later, got hold of another copy. If you only read one book about Jazz make it this one. You will be out buying records before you finish the first chapter.
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